Mammillaria maritima

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

Mammillaria maritima (older plant)

Mammillaria maritima is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet means 'belonging to the sea'.

description

Mammillaria maritima forms groups up to one meter in diameter. The solid up to 50 centimeters high, cylindrical bodies are blue-green and stand upright, while they are 3 to 7 centimeters in diameter. On the smooth, conically shaped warts sit about 10 to 15 white radial spines with black dots, which reach a length of up to 4 centimeters. The reddish brown 4 central spines reach up to 5 centimeters in length. They are bent like fish hooks. The zygomorphic flowers are trumpet-shaped with slightly rolled bracts . They are up to 3 inches long and scarlet. The fruits are spherical and red. The seeds are black.

Mammillaria maritima is still treated as Cochemiea in the English original . Lüthy (1995) regards this taxon as a synonym of Mammillaria pondii .

Distribution and systematics

Mammillaria maritima is widespread in the Mexican state of Baja California and occurs along the Pacific coast west of Punta Prieta .

It was first described in 1937 by the American botanist George Edmund Lindsay, initially as Cochemiae maritima . In 1971, David Richard Hunt incorporated it into Mammillaria .

The following species and varieties are synonyms : Cochemiea maritima G.E. Linds. (1937), Mammillaria setispina var. Maritima (GELinds.) E. Kuhn (1982) (nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3), Mammillaria pondii subsp. maritima (GELinds.) DRHunt (1997) and Cochemiea pondii subsp. maritima (GELinds.) and Guzmán (2003).

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literature

• Edward F. Anderson : The Cactus Family . Timber Press, Portland (Oregon) 2001, ISBN 0-88192-498-9 , pp. 166 .
• John Pilbeam : Mammillaria The Cactus File Handbook . cactusfile.com, Southampton 1999, ISBN 0-9528302-8-0 , pp. 236 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Edward F. Anderson : The great cactus lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 394 .
2. ^ GE Lindsay: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 8, Number 9, 1937, pp. 143-144.
3. ^ DR Hunt: British Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 33, Number 3, 1971, p. 58.

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