Mammillaria neopalmeri

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Mammillaria neopalmeri
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Mammillaria neopalmeri

Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily : Cactoideae
Tribe : Cacteae
Genre : Mammillaria
Type : Mammillaria neopalmeri
Scientific name
Mammillaria neopalmeri
RTCraig

Mammillaria neopalmeri is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae).

description

Mammillaria neopalmeri grows in groups. The elongated spherical shoots are gray-green. They grow to be 9 inches high and 5 inches in diameter. The obtuse conical warts are square at the base and have no milky sap . The axillae are covered with white wool and short twisted bristles. The 3 to 5  central spines are straight and / or occasionally hooked. They are brownish with a dark tip and 6 to 8 millimeters long. The 25 to 30 radial spines are slender and needle-like, white and 5 to 6 millimeters long.

The light greenish-white or light cream-colored flowers are 1 centimeter in size. Some of them have a more or less pink tinge. The club-shaped fruits are scarlet and up to 1.3 inches long. They contain black seeds .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria neopalmeri is common in the Mexican state of Baja California on the islands of San Benito and Guadalupe .

It was first described as Cactus palmeri in 1894 by John Merle Coulter . Friedrich Bödeker placed the species in the genus Mammillaria in 1933 . However, this recombination was invalid according to Article 53.1 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature , since Georg Albano von Jacobi had already described a Mammillaria species with the name Mammillaria palmeri in 1856 . Robert T. Craig therefore gave the species the replacement name Mammillaria neopalmeri in 1945 .

Synonyms are Mammillaria dioica var. Neopalmeri (RTCraig) Neutel. (1986), Mammillaria palmeri (JMCoult.) Boed. (1933, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 53.1) and Bartschella palmeri (JMCoult.) Doweld (2000).

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. 399 .
  • Ulises Guzmán, Salvador Arias, Patricia Dávila: Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas . Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 2003, ISBN 970-9000-20-9 , pp. 145 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Merle Coulter: Preliminary Revision of the North American species of Cactus, Anhalonium and Lophophora . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 3, Number 2, June 1894, p. 108, (online) .
  2. ↑ Friedrich Bödeker: A mammillary comparison key . Neumann, Neudamm 1933, p. 43.
  3. ↑ General garden newspaper . Volume 24, 1856, p. 82.
  4. ↑ Robert T. Craig : The Mammillaria handbook: with descriptions, illustrations, and key to the species of the genus Mammillaria of the Cactaceae . EP Publishing, University of Wisconsin - Madison 1945, pp. 267-268 .
  5. ↑ Mammillaria neopalmeri in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Burquez Montijo, A. & Felger, RS, 2010. Retrieved December 24, 2013.

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