Mammillaria aureilanata

Mammillaria aureilanata
	Mammillaria aureilanata Rep. 1030
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cacteae
Genre :	Mammillaria
Type :	Mammillaria aureilanata
Scientific name
	Mammillaria aureilanata
	Backeb.

Mammillaria aureilanata is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). Thespecific epithet aureilanata means 'yellow woolly'.

description

Mammillaria aureilanata grows individually with bulbous, depressed spherical, shiny dark green shoots at the base that reach heights of up to 7.5 centimeters. The cylindrical warts are far apart. They do not contain milk juice . The axillae are bare. A central spine is missing. The 25 to 30 bristle-like radial spines are translucent white to yellowish.

The bell-shaped white to light pink flowers are 1.5 to 3 centimeters long and reach the same diameter. The club-shaped fruits are more or less pink-white and contain black seeds .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria aureilanata is common in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí .

It was first described in 1938 by Curt Backeberg . Synonyms are Ebnerella aureilanata (Backeb.) Buxb. (1951), Chilita aureilanata (Backeb.) Buxb. (1954) (nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3), Escobariopsis aureilanata (Backeb.) Doweld (2000), Mammillaria cephalophora Quehl (1914) (nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1), Mammillaria aureilanata var. Alba Backeb. (1949) and Mammillaria aureilanata fa. alba (Backeb.) Krainz (1964).

Mammillaria aureilanata was in the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN in 2002 as " Vulnerable (VU) , d". H. endangered, classified. In 2013 it was named " Endangered (EN) ", i. H. listed as endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 370 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 18.
↑ Contributions to succulent science and care . 1938, p. 13.
↑ Mammillaria aureilanata in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Gómez-Hinostrosa, C., Hernández, HM, Sotomayor, M. & Smith, M., 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2013.

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 18.

[2] Contributions to succulent science and care . 1938, p. 13.

[3] Mammillaria aureilanata in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Gómez-Hinostrosa, C., Hernández, HM, Sotomayor, M. & Smith, M., 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2013.