Mammillaria carnea

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Mammillaria carnea
Mammillaria carnea on location in Oaxaca

Mammillaria carnea on location in Oaxaca

Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily : Cactoideae
Tribe : Cacteae
Genre : Mammillaria
Type : Mammillaria carnea
Scientific name
Mammillaria carnea
Zucc. ex whistle.
Mammillaria carnea on plate 60 from 1905 from Blooming Cacti

Mammillaria carnea is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet carnea means '(Latin carneus) flesh-colored'.

description

Mammillaria carnea first sprouts individually when old. The spherical to cylindrical plant bodies are up to 20 centimeters high and 8 to 12 centimeters in diameter. The firm, pyramidal and clearly angular warts have a milky sap . The 4 pink-brown colored  central spines have a black tip. They are stiff, straight or curved, and 0.8 to 2 inches long. The radial spines are completely absent or are only present as bristles.

The funnel-shaped pale pink flowers are 1.5 to 2 inches long and 1.2 to 1.5 inches in diameter. The red fruits contain brown seeds .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria carnea is common in the Mexican states of Guerrero , Puebla and Oaxaca .

It was first described in 1837 by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer .

Synonyms are the following species and varieties described:
Mammillaria villifera var. Carneae (Zucc. Ex Pfeiff.) Salm-Dyck (1850), Neomammillaria carnea (Zucc. Ex Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose (1923), Mammillaria aeruginosa Scheidw. (1840), Mammillaria villifera var. Aeruginosa (Scheidw.) Salm-Dyck (1850), Mammillaria carnea var. Aeruginosa (Scheidw.) Gürke (1905), Mammillaria subtetragona A.Dietr. (1840), Mammillaria carnea var. Subtetragona (A.Dietr.) Backeb. (1961), Mammillaria pallescens Scheidw. (1841), Mammillaria villifera var. Cirrosa Salm-Dyck (1850), Mammillaria carnea var. Cirrosa (Salm-Dyck) Gürke (1905) and Mammillaria carnea var. Robustispina R.T. Kraig (1945).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.

proof

literature

  • Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 374 .
  • Alwin Berger : Cacti - instructions for culture and knowledge of the most important introduced species . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1929, p. 321 .
  • 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. 88 ( online ).
  • Ulises Guzmán: Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas . Universidad National Autonoma de México, Mexico City 2007, ISBN 970-9000-20-9 , pp. 118 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Pfeiffer: Enumeratio diagnostica Cactearum hucusque cognitarum , Berlin 1837, p. 19 (online) .
  2. ↑ Mammillaria carnea in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Arias, S., Valverde, T., Zavala-Hurtado, A. & Hernández, C., 2009. Retrieved December 27, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Mammillaria carnea  - Collection of images, videos and audio files