Mammillaria nivosa

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Mammillaria nivosa
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Mammillaria nivosa

Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily : Cactoideae
Tribe : Cacteae
Genre : Mammillaria
Type : Mammillaria nivosa
Scientific name
Mammillaria nivosa
Link ex Pfeiff.

Mammillaria nivosa is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). Thespecific epithet nivosa means '(Latin nivosus) snowy, thickly white-haired'.

description

Mammillaria nivosa grows individually or in groups. The spherical to short cylindrical shoots are dark green to bronze in color. They grow to be 8 to 10 centimeters in diameter. The laterally compressed, bluntly conical warts contain plenty of milky juice . The axillae are covered with thick wool. A central spine is no different from the 6 to 13 radial spines, which are bright yellow to dark brown and up to 2 centimeters long.

The yellow flowers are 1.5 to 2 centimeters long and have the same diameter. The club-shaped fruits are red and contain brown seeds .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria nivosa is common in the Caribbean . It was first described in 1937 by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer .

Synonyms are Mammillaria flavescens var. Nivosa (Link ex Pfeiff.) Backeb. (1961), Mammillaria prolifera var. Nivosa (Link ex Pfeiff.) B. Hofm. (1979, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3) and Mammillaria flavescens (DC.) Haw. (1819).

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 .
  • Alwin Berger : Cacti - instructions for culture and knowledge of the most important introduced species . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1929, p. 316 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, pp. 11-12 (online) .
  2. ↑ Mammillaria nivosa in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Listed by: Taylor, NP, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2013.

Web links

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