Mammillaria barbata
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Mammillaria barbata is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet barbata means '(Latin barbatus) bearded'.
description
Mammillaria barbata grows individually or with many heads and forms dense cushions. The individual plant bodies are depressed, spherical to short cylindrical in shape and about 3 to 4 centimeters in diameter. The warts are soft, spherical to cylindrical and have no milky juice . The axillae are bare. The 1 to 4 central spines are stiffly protruding, brown to reddish-brown or orange-brown and up to 2 centimeters long. 1 to 2 of them are strongly hooked. The 16 to 60 radial spines are in several rows. They are usually hairy, whitish to yellowish, sometimes pointed darker and 0.6 to 0.8 inches long.
The flowers are 1.5 to 3 centimeters long with just as much diameter. They are light pink to yellowish, pink to orange or brownish to greenish. The outer perianth segments are ciliated. The elongated green to purple red or dark red fruits are up to 1 centimeter in diameter and contain dark reddish-brown seeds .
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Mammillaria barbata is distributed in the US states of Arizona and New Mexico as well as in the Mexican states of Chihuahua , Sonora and Durango .
The first description was in 1848 by George Engelmann .
The following species and varieties are synonyms :
Chilita barbata (Engelm.) Orcutt (1926), Ebnerella barbata (Engelm.) Buxb. (1951), Cochemiea barbata (Engelm.) Doweld (2000), Neomammillaria viridiflora Britton & Rose (1923), Chilita viridiflora (Britton & Rose) Orcutt (1926), Mammillaria viridiflora (Britton & Rose) Boed. (1933), Mammillaria chavezii Cowper (1963) (nom. Inval. ICBN - Articles 36.1 and 37.1), Mammillaria morricalii Cowper (1969), Mammillaria barbata var. Morricalii (Cowper) Lodé (1992), Mammillaria orestera L.D.Benson (1969) , Mammillaria santaclarensis Cowper (1969), Mammillaria barbata var. Santaclarensis (Cowper) Lodé (1992), Mammillaria garessii Cowper (1970), Mammillaria barbata var. Garessii (Cowper) Lodé (1992), Mammillaria luthieniae Laferr. (1998) and Mammillaria meliolotiae Laferr. (1998).
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.
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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. 370 .
- NL Britton , JN Rose : The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family . tape IV . The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1923, p. 144-145 ( online ).
- Ulises Guzmán, Salvador Arias, Patricia Dávila: Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas . Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 2003, ISBN 970-9000-20-9 , pp. 114 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Engelmann: In: A. Wislizenus: Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico: connected with Col. Doniphan's expedition, in 1846 and 1847 . Washington 1848, p. 105, (online) .
- ↑ Mammillaria barbata in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Corral-Díaz, R., 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
