Mammillaria mystax

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Mammillaria mystax
Mammillaria mystax

Mammillaria mystax

Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily : Cactoideae
Tribe : Cacteae
Genre : Mammillaria
Type : Mammillaria mystax
Scientific name
Mammillaria mystax
Mart.
Flowers of Mammillaria mystax

Mammillaria mystax is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet mystax describes the coiled axillary wool of the species that looks like a mustache.

description

Mammillaria mystax has a spherical, later elongated body up to 15 centimeters high and up to 10 centimeters in diameter. The cactus species owes its nickname to the thorns in different zones. The dark gray-green warts are square and crowned by pyramidal, white wooly axils with twisted bristles. The 5 to 6 radial spines are very variable in length and color. They are between 0.4 and 0.8 inches long and white with brown tips. The 3 to 4 central spines are initially dark purple, later graying and sometimes two centimeters long; one of them can reach 7 centimeters.

The purple-pink colored flowers are two centimeters in diameter. The fruits are lighter and up to 2.5 inches long. The seeds are brown.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria mystax is common in the Mexican states, Hidalgo , Oaxaca and in Central Puebla at altitudes between 1000 and 2600 meters. It was first described in 1832 by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius .

Synonyms are Neomammillaria mystax (Mart.) Britton & Rose (1923), Mammillaria mystax var. Mutabilis (Scheidw.) E. Kuhn (1979, nom. Inval. ICBN - Article 33.3), Mammillaria mystax var. Huajuapensis (Bravo.) Linzen (1991, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3, 34.1.) And Mammillaria mystax var. Mixtecensis (Bravo.) E. Kuhn (1979, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3).

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

proof

literature

  • Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 398 .
  • 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. 92 ff . ( 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. 144 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 161.
  2. ↑ Martius, description of some new nopaleas . In: Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum Exhibentia Ephemerides sive Observationes Historias et Experimenta… Volume 16, Number 1, 1832, pp. 332–334, (online) .
  3. ↑ Mammillaria mystax in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Arias, S., Valverde, T. & Zavala-Hurtado, A., 2009. Retrieved December 27, 2013.

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