Mammillaria albicoma
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Mammillaria albicoma is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet albicoma means 'white-haired'.
description
Mammillaria albicoma grows with flattened spherical to short cylindrical shoots that branch at the base and often form flat cushions. The shoots hidden under the dense thorns reach heights of growth of up to 5 centimeters and diameters of 3 to 5 centimeters. The conical to cylindrical bright green warts are clipped at their tips and arranged in a spiral. They do not contain milk juice . The axillae are covered with felt and bristles. The 3 to 4 straight, white central spines , which are sometimes missing, have a reddish-brown tip and are 4 to 5 millimeters long. The hair-like 30 to 40 white radial spines are 8 to 10 millimeters long.
The broad, funnel-shaped, light greenish-yellow to cream-colored flowers are 1 to 1.5 centimeters long and have the same diameter. The small red fruits contain black seeds .
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Mammillaria albicoma is common in the Mexican states of Nuevo León , San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas .
It was first described in 1929 by Friedrich Bödeker . Synonyms are the following species described: Mammillaria pilispina var. Albicoma (Boed.) E. Kuhn (1976, nom. Inval. ICBN -Articles 33.3 and 43.1) and Escobariopsis albicoma (Boed.) Doweld (2000).
Mammillaria albicoma is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. endangered, classified.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 368 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 5.
- ↑ Monthly of the German Cactus Society . Volume 1, 1929, p. 241.
- ↑ Mammillaria albicoma in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010. Posted by: Hernández, HM, Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. & Goettsch, B., 2002. Accessed April 27 of 2010.
