Mammillaria amajacensis
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Mammillaria amajacensis is a species of plant in the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The epithet refers to the occurrence of the species in the valley of the Rio Amajac and the village of Santa Maria Amajac in the Mexican state of Hidalgo.
description
Mammillaria amajacensis usually grows individually with a spherical to short cylindrical body, the height and diameter of which can be between 9 and 10 centimeters. The dark blue-green warts are conical in shape. The axillae are densely woolly. The 2 to 4 central spines are straight, pinkish gray with a blackish tip and up to 1.5 centimeters long. Radial spines are completely absent.
The rose-cream colored flowers have a darker central stripe. The fruits are red. They have brown seeds .
Distribution and systematics
Mammillaria amajacensis is common in the Mexican state of Hidalgo .
It was first described in 1997 by Christian Brachet and Michel Lacoste .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 369 .
- Ulises Guzmán, Salvador Arias, Patricia Dávila: Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas . Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 2003, ISBN 970-9000-20-9 , pp. 113 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 8.
- ↑ C. Brachet, M. Lacoste: Mammillaria amajacensis, a new species from Hidalgo, Mexico . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Vol. 69, No. 4, 1997, pp. 185-189.