Mammillaria oteroi

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Mammillaria oteroi
Systematics
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family : Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily : Cactoideae
Tribe : Cacteae
Genre : Mammillaria
Type : Mammillaria oteroi
Scientific name
Mammillaria oteroi
Glass & RAFoster

Mammillaria oteroi is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the Mexican plant collector Felipe Otero.

description

Mammillaria oteroi grows strongly sprouting with partly sloping side shoots. The spherical shoots are light green. They grow to be 2 to 3 inches high and 3 to 4 inches in diameter. The warts are cylindrical in shape. They are slim and flabby soft fleshed. The axillae are covered with wool and a few bristles. There is a strongly hooked central spine . It is protruding, reddish brown in color with a whitish base and a length of 1.1 centimeters. The 12 to 14 radial spines are white with a brown tip and 6 to 8 millimeters long.

The white flowers have a brownish red central stripe. They measure 7 to 8 millimeters in diameter. The club-shaped fruits are colored bright red. They grow to be 7 to 8 millimeters in size and contain black seeds .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria oteroi is common in the Mexican state of Oaxaca .

It was first described in 1975 by Charles Edward Glass and Robert Alan Foster . A synonym is Escobariopsis oteroi (Glass & RAFoster) Doweld (2000).

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Vulnerable (VU) ", d. H. listed as 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. 146 .
  • Antonio Gómez Sánchez: Enciclopedia ilustrada de los cactus y otras suculentas: (descripción de las especies, habitat y cuidados de cultivo) . Floramedia Espana SA, Valencia 2006, ISBN 84-89347-56-5 , p. 92 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 173.
  2. ^ C. Glass, R. Foster: Mammillaria oteroi and M. pennispinosa var. Nazasensis, two new taxa from Mexico . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 47, Los Angeles 1975, pp. 94-96.
  3. ↑ Mammillaria oteroi in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Arias, S. & Hernández, HM, 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2013.

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