Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae

Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae
	Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Cacteae
Genre :	Mammillaria
Type :	Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae
Scientific name
	Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae
	Rodr.González

Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae is a species of plant in the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the Mexican cactus specialist Hernándo Sánchez-Mejorada .

description

Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae grows individually with flattened spherical to spherical bright green shoots and reaches heights of up to 3 centimeters with diameters of 1 to 3 centimeters. The warts are conical. They do not contain milk juice . The axillae are bare. There is no central spine . The 30 to 40 hair-like, stiff, white radial spines lie like a comb on the warts and are 1.5 to 2 millimeters long.

The bell-shaped flowers are whitish pink. They are up to 1.6 centimeters long and reach a diameter of 2 centimeters. The spherical fruits are completely hidden in the shoots. They are 3 to 8 millimeters in diameter and contain black seeds .

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae is common in the Mexican state of Nuevo León .

The first description was in 1992 by Rodrigo González . A synonym is Escobariopsis sanchez-mejoradae (Rodr.González) Doweld .

Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Critically Endangered (CR) ", d. H. critically endangered, classified.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 406 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 212.
^ R. Gonzalez: Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae una especie nueva de la familia Cactaceae . In: Cactaceas y Suculentas Mexicanas . Volume 37, Number 3, 1992, pp. 55-59, 76.
↑ Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010. Posted by Fitz Maurice, WA & Fitz Maurice, B., 2002. Retrieved on 4 May, 2010.

Web links

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 212.

[2] R. Gonzalez: Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae una especie nueva de la familia Cactaceae . In: Cactaceas y Suculentas Mexicanas . Volume 37, Number 3, 1992, pp. 55-59, 76.

[3] Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010. Posted by Fitz Maurice, WA & Fitz Maurice, B., 2002. Retrieved on 4 May, 2010.