Mammillaria magnimamma

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Mammillaria magnimamma
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Mammillaria magnimamma

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

Mammillaria magnimamma is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet magnimamma means 'with large warts'.

description

Mammillaria magnimamma , grows spherical, a little pressed later often obovate. The gray to blue-green bodies often divide and form larger groups. The warts are large, broad, very depressed, ovoid and dull and dark green and contain milky sap . The axillae are woolly; especially when they are young with white wool. The 2 to 5 radial spines are extremely variable, of unequal length and whitish to yellow with dark tips. They become 1.5 to 4.5 centimeters long, the lower ones often stand downwards. Central spines are usually absent.

The relatively small, only 2 to 2.5 centimeters large flowers are cream-colored to pink or purple-pink. The fruits are clearly dark red. The seeds are brown.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria magnimamma is distributed with large populations in the Mexican states of Hidalgo , Guerrero , Mexico , Aguascalientes , Zacatecas , Querétaro , Guanajuato , Tamaulipas , Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí and occurs at altitudes between 100 and 2700 meters.

It was first described in 1824 by Adrian Hardy Haworth .

Mammillaria magnimamma

Synonyms are the following described species and varieties:
Mammillaria macracantha DC. (1829), Mammillaria gladiata Mart. (1832), Mammillaria zuccariniana Mart. (1832), Mammillaria centricirrha Lem. (1839), Mammillaria phymatothele A. Berger (1840), Mammillaria pentacantha Pfeiff. (1840), Mammillaria flavovirens Salm-Dyck (1840), Mammillaria trohartii Hildm. ex K.Schum. (1898), Mammillaria phymatothele var. Trohartii (Hildm ex K.Schum.) RTCraig (1945), Mammillaria bucareliensis R.T.Craig (1945), Mammillaria bucareliensis var. Bicornuta Schmoll ex RTCraig (1945), Mammillaria vagaspina R.T.Craig (1945), Mammillaria vallensis Repp. (1987) Mammillaria vallensis var. Brevispina Repp. (1987), Mammillaria priessnitzii Repp. (1987) Mammillaria saxicola Repp. (1987) Mammillaria rioverdense Repp. (1987), mammillaria bucareliensis var. Multiflora Repp. (1987) and Mammillaria bucareliensis var. Tamaulipa Repp. (1987).

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. 393 .
  • Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde . 2nd Edition. tape V . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart New York 1984, p. 3131 f . (Unchanged reprint).
  • Curt Backeberg , Frederik Marcus Knuth : Cactus ABC. En haandbog for fagfolk and amatører . Copenhagen 1936, p. 400 .
  • 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. 41 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Carl Friedrich Förster : Handbuch der Cacteenkunde in its entirety: Or the most successful cult information based on the latest experiences, as well as a detailed and precise description and corrected synonymy of all cacti that have become known so far, and everything in general with regard to these ... Wöller, 1846, S. 235 ( books.google.de ).
  • Ulises Guzmán, Salvador Arias, Patricia Dávila: Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas . Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 2003, ISBN 970-9000-20-9 , pp. 139 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Descriptions of some new Cacti and Mammillariae, recently brought from Mexico by Mr. Bullock of the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly; and now preserved, with many other very rare plants in the Nursery of Mr. Tate, in Sloanestreet. In: Philosophical Magazine. Volume 63, 1824, p. 41 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Mammillaria magnimamma in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Cházaro, M., Hernández, HM, Gómez-Hinostrosa, C., Guadalupe Martínez, J. & Sánchez, E., 2009. Accessed December 27, 2013.

Web links

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