Mammillaria pectinifera
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Mammillaria pectinifera is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet pectinifera means 'comb-like'. A Spanish common name is "Conchilinque".
description
Mammillaria pectinifera has a short cylindrical to spherical body with a height of up to 8 centimeters and a diameter of up to 6 centimeters. On the also cylindrical warts sit about 20 to 40 pure white, bristle-like radial spines with a length of 0.2 centimeters, which cover the body like a comb. The axillae are glabrous and the areoles somewhat elongated. The central spines are completely absent. The flowers are 2.5 inches in diameter. They are yellowish white, white, pink or pink with a darker central stripe. The scar is green. The fruits are reddish, small and barely protrude from the spines arranged like a comb. The seeds are black.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Mammillaria pectinifera occurs in a very limited area in the Mexican state of Puebla near Tehuacán near San Lorenzo at an altitude of approx. 1900 m.
It was first described in 1898 by Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber . Nomenclatory synonyms are Pelecyphora pectinata Stein (1885), Pelecyphora aselliformis var. Pectinifera Rümpl. (1885) and Solisia pectinata (Stein) Britton & Rose (1923).
Mammillaria pectinifera is listed in Appendix I of the Washington Convention on Endangered Species . In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. listed as endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2 , pp. 399-400 .
- John Pilbeam : Mammillaria The Cactus File Handbook . cactusfile.com, Southampton 1999, ISBN 0-9528302-8-0 , pp. 214 .
- Karl Schumann : Complete description of the cacti (Monographia cactacearum) . J. Neumann, Neudamm 1899, p. 603 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ In: Désiré Georges Jean Marie Bois: Dictionnaire d'Horticulture . Volume 2, Paris 1898, p. 804.
- ↑ Mammillaria pectinifera in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Valverde, T. & Zavala-Hurtado, A., 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
further reading
- Pedro Luis Valverde, José Alejandro Zavala-Hurtado, Cecilia Jiménez-Sierra, Beatriz Rendón-Aguilar, Amelia Cornejo-Romero, Sombra Rivas-Arancibia, Gerardo López-Ortega, Marco Aurelio Pérez-Hernández: Evaluación del riesgo de extinción de Mammiferillaria, cactácea endémica de la región de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán . In: Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad . Volume 80, 2009, pp. 219-230, PDF; 393 kB .
