Mammillaria lindsayi
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Mammillaria lindsayi is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the American botanist George Edmund Lindsay (1917–2002).
description
Mammillaria lindsayi first grows individually and later forms groups of up to one square meter. The spherical, gray-green shoots are up to 15 centimeters high and reach an equally large diameter. The conical to square shaped warts are somewhat keeled. They contain plenty of milky juice . The axillae are covered with dense white wool and each with 8 white, twisted bristles. The 2 to 4 central spines are straight, golden brown to reddish and 0.4 to 1.2 inches long. The 10 to 14 radial spines are white with an ocher to golden yellow base. They are only 2 to 8 millimeters long.
The light greenish-yellow flowers have an orange-yellow central stripe; very rarely also red. They are 1.5 to 2 inches long and up to 1 inch in diameter. The scarlet fruits are club-shaped to cylindrical in shape. They grow up to 2 inches long and contain brown seeds .
Distribution and systematics
Mammillaria lindsayi is common in the Mexican states of Chihuahua , Durango, and Sinaloa .
It was first described in 1940 by Robert T. Craig . Synonyms are Mammillaria standleyi var. Lindsayi (RTCraig) E. Kuhn (1981, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3), Mammillaria lindsayi var. Cobrensis Repp. ex Hils (1993) and Mammillaria lindsayi var. rubriflora Hils (1993).
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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. 391 .
- Ulises Guzmán, Salvador Arias, Patricia Dávila: Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas . Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 2003, ISBN 970-9000-20-9 , pp. 137 .
- Antonio Gómez Sánchez: Enciclopedia ilustrada de los cactus y otras suculentas: (descripción de las especies, habitat y cuidados de cultivo) . Floramedia Espana SA, Valencia 2006, ISBN 84-89347-56-5 , p. 88 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 138.
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Vol. 12, Los Angeles 1940, p. 182.
