Mammillaria erythrosperma

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Mammillaria erythrosperma
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Mammillaria erythrosperma

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

Mammillaria erythrosperma is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet erythrosperma means 'with red seed'.

description

Mammillaria erythrosperma grows forming cushions. The spherical to short cylindrical, dark green shoots are 4 to 5 centimeters high and 4 to 5 centimeters in diameter. The warts are cylindrical in shape. The axillae are covered with hairy white bristles. The 1 to 3  central spines are yellow with a brownish red tip and up to 1 centimeter long. The bottom one is also often hooked. The 15 to 20 radial spines are thinly white and 0.8 to 1 centimeter long.

The carmine-red flowers are up to 1.5 inches long and large in diameter. The pink fruits are long. They contain dark red to blackish seeds .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

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

It was first described in 1918 by Friedrich Bödeker .

Synonyms are the following described species:
Ebnerella erythrosperma (Boed.) Buxb. (1951), Chilita erythrosperma (Boed.) Buxb. (1954, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3), Krainzia erythrosperma (Boed.) Doweld (2000), Neomammillaria multiformis Britton & Rose (1923) and Mammillaria multiformis (Britton & Rose) Boed. (1933).

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

proof

literature

  • Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 380 .
  • 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. 148 ( 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. 124 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mammillaria erythrosperma spec. nov. In: Monthly for cactus science . Vol. 28, 1918, p. 101 (online) .
  2. ↑ Mammillaria erythrosperma in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2011. Posted by Fitz Maurice, WA & Fitz Maurice, B., 2002. Retrieved on 5 October 2011th

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