Mammillaria mammillaris

Mammillaria mammillaris
	Mammillaria mammillaris
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cacteae
Genre :	Mammillaria
Type :	Mammillaria mammillaris
Scientific name
	Mammillaria mammillaris
	( L. ) H. Karst.

Mammillaria mammillaris is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet mammillaris means 'warty, warty'.

description

Mammillaria mammillaris grows individually or forms small groups. The spherical to short cylindrical shiny light green to dark green shoots reach a diameter of up to 20 centimeters. The conical warts contain milk juice . There is only sparse wool in the axillae . The 3 to 5 reddish brown central spines have a darker tip, turn gray later and are 7 to 8 millimeters long. The top thorn is the longest. The 10 to 16 radial spines are reddish brown and gray with age.

The cream-white, funnel-shaped flowers are 1 to 1.2 centimeters long. The club-shaped red fruits are 10 to 20 millimeters long and contain small brown, rough seeds .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria mammillaris is widespread in the Lesser Antilles in Trinidad and Tobago , on Curaçao and the neighboring islands of the Netherlands Antilles as well as in Venezuela .

It was first described as Cactus mammillaris in 1753 by Carl von Linné in Species Plantarum . Hermann Karsten placed them in the genus Mammillaria in 1882 . A synonym is Neomammillaria mammillaris (L.) Britton & Rose (1923).

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

proof

Mammillaria mammillaris
This illustration from Leonard Plukenets Phytographia from 1691 is used to typify the genus Mammillaria .

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 394 .

Individual evidence

↑ Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum . Volume 1, pp. 466, 1753, online .
^ Hermann Karsten: German flora. Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Botany. A plan of systematic botany for self-study for doctors, pharmacists and botanists . JM Spaeth, Berlin 1882, p. 888 (online) .
↑ Mammillaria mammillaris in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Nassar, J., 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2013.

Web links

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[1] Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum . Volume 1, pp. 466, 1753, online .

[2] Hermann Karsten: German flora. Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Botany. A plan of systematic botany for self-study for doctors, pharmacists and botanists . JM Spaeth, Berlin 1882, p. 888 (online) .

[3] Mammillaria mammillaris in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Nassar, J., 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2013.