Mammillaria bocasana

Mammillaria bocasana
Mammillaria bocasana
Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales) Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae) Subfamily : Cactoideae Tribe : Cacteae Genre : Mammillaria Type : Mammillaria bocasana
Scientific name
Mammillaria bocasana
Poselg.

fruit

Prague Botanical garden

Mammillaria bocasana is a species of the genus Mammillaria inthe cactus family (Cactaceae). The specific epithet bocasana means 'from the Bocas location (Mexico)'.

description

Mammillaria bocasana usually forms groups of spherical green shoots that can become cylindrical with age and reach heights of up to 8 centimeters. The cylindrical warts are soft-fleshed and do not contain any milky juice . There are bristles in some axillae . The 1 to 7 central spines are reddish brown and 5 to 10 millimeters long. One or two central spines are hooked. The 20 to 50 white radial spines are hair-like and 8 to 20 millimeters long.

The funnel-shaped flowers are creamy white to slightly pink. They are 13 to 22 millimeters long and reach a diameter of up to 15 millimeters. The cylindrical fruits are red or pink in color and contain reddish brown seeds with a slightly lateral hilum .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria bocasana is common in the Mexican states of San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas . The first description was in 1853 by Heinrich Poselger (1818–1883).

The following species and varieties are synonyms : Chilita bocasana (Poselg.) Orcutt (1926), Ebnerella bocasana (Poselg.) Buxb. (1951), Krainzia bocasana (Poselg.) Doweld (2000), Cactus eschauzieri J.M.Coulter (1894), Mammillaria eschauzieri (JMCoulter) K.Brandegee (1905), Neomammillaria eschauzieri (JMCoulter) Britton & Rose (1923), Chilita eschauzieri ( JMCoulter) Orcutt (1926), Krainzia bocasana subsp. eschauzieri (JMCoulter) Doweld (2000), Mammillaria kunzeana Boed. & Quehl (1912), Chilita kunzeana (Boed. & Quehl) Orcutt (1926), Ebnerella kunzeana (Boed. & Quehl) Buxb. (1951), Mammillaria hirsuta Boed. (1919), Neomammillaria hirsuta (Boed.) Britton & Rose (1923), Chilita hirsuta (Boed.) Orcutt (1926), Neomammillaria longicoma Britton & Rose (1923), Chilita longicoma (Britton & Rose) Orcutt (1926), Mammillaria longicoma (Britton & Rose) A. Berger (1929), Mammillaria knebeliana Boed. (1932), Ebnerella knebeliana (Boed.) Buxb. (1951), Chilita knebeliana (Boed.) Buxb. (1954) (nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3), Mammillaria haehneliana Boed. (1934), Ebnerella haehneliana (Boed.) Buxb. (1951), Chilita haehneliana (Boed.) Buxb. (1954) (nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3) and Mammillaria hirsuata var. Grandis Repp. (1987)

The following subspecies are distinguished:

• Mammillaria bocasana subsp. bocasana :
  The nominate form has 30 to 50 radial spines. The fruits are distinctly red.
• Mammillaria bocasana subsp. eschauzieri :
  The first description as Cactus eschauzieri was made in 1894 by John Merle Coulter . Walter Alfred Fitz Maurice and Betty Fitz Maurice added it to Mammillaria bocasana as a subspecies in 1995 . The subspecies has 20 to 30 radial spines. The fruits are pink.

Mammillaria bocasana is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Least Concern (LC) ", d. H. classified as not endangered in nature.

use

In Mexico, the hooked central spines were used as fish hooks .

proof

literature

• Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 371-372 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ H. Poselger: Contribution to the cactus customer . In: General garden newspaper . Volume 21, Number 12, 1853, p. 94, (online) .
2. ^ Coulter: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 3, 1894, p. 104.
3. ^ WA Fitz Maurice & B. Fitz Maurice in Journal of the Mammillaria Society . Volume 35, Number 2, Weybridge, England 1995, p. 17.
4. ↑ Mammillaria bocasana in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2011. Posted by Fitz Maurice, WA & Fitz Maurice, B., 2002. Retrieved on 5 October 2011th

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