Mammillaria jaliscana

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

Mammillaria jaliscana is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet jaliscana means '(lat. Jaliscanus) from the location in the state of Jalisco (Mexico)'.

description

Mammillaria jaliscana forms dense cushions from the base. The spherical to short cylindrical, bright green shoots are 5 to 6 centimeters in diameter. The warts are tapered, cylindrical with a rounded tip and occasionally contain milky sap . The axillae are bare. The 5 to 14 reddish-brown central spines are 0.7 to 0.9 inches long and have dark tips. The 30 to 40 radial spines are white, more or less straight and 0.5 inches long.

The pink flowers are delicately scented and 2 centimeters in diameter. The blunt, club-like fruits are white to turbid pink and 0.8 centimeters in size. They contain fine, brownish-black seeds .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria jaliscana is common in the Mexican states of Jalisco , Michoacán, and Zacatecas .

It was first described in 1923 as Neomammillaria jaliscana by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose . Friedrich Bödeker placed the species in the genus Mammillaria in 1933 .

Synonyms are the following described species:
Neomammillaria jaliscana Britton & Rose (1923), Escobariopsis jaliscana (Britton & Rose) Doweld (2000), Mammillaria zacatecasensis Shurly (1960), Mammillaria jaliscana subsp. zacatecasensis (Shurly) DRHunt (1997), Escobariopsis jaliscana subsp. zacatecasensis (Shurly) Doweld (2000), Mammillaria kleiniorum Appenz. (1986) and Mammillaria fuscohamata Backeb. ex Repp. (1991)

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Vulnerable (VU) ", d. H. listed as endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 389 .
Ulises Guzmán: Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas . Universidad National Autonoma de México, Mexico City 2007, ISBN 970-9000-20-9 , pp. 134 .

Individual evidence

^ 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. 160-161 .
↑ Friedrich Bödeker: Ein Mammillarien-comparative key , 1933, p. 35.
↑ Mammillaria jaliscana in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Terrazas, T., Arias, S., Bárcenas Luna, R., Arreola, H. & Cházaro, M., 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Mammillaria jaliscana - collection of images, videos and audio files

Plant photos and distribution at Mammillarias.net

[1] 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. 160-161 .

[2] Friedrich Bödeker: Ein Mammillarien-comparative key , 1933, p. 35.

[3] Mammillaria jaliscana in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Terrazas, T., Arias, S., Bárcenas Luna, R., Arreola, H. & Cházaro, M., 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2013.