Mammillaria wagneriana
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Mammillaria wagneriana is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Mammillaria wagneriana grows individually with a flattened spherical to depressed spherical body. The shoots are dark green and up to 15 centimeters high and measure up to 20 centimeters in diameter. The short, pyramidal-shaped warts are square. They carry plenty of milky juice . The axillae are covered with thick white wool. They have no bristles. The 2 to 4 central spines are very variable. They are either straight and 2 centimeters long or they are twisted and 5 centimeters long, but always reddish horn-colored. The 9 to 10 radial spines are whitish yellow with a brown tip and are somewhat unequal. They are 0.7 to 2.1 inches long.
The dirty white flowers have a light pink central stripe and light pink tips. They measure 1.5 centimeters in diameter. The fruits are red. They contain brown seeds .
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Mammillaria wagneriana is common in the Mexican states of Aguascalientes , Durango , Jalisco and Zacatecas .
It was first described in 1932 by Friedrich Bödeker . Synonyms of Mammillaria wagneriana Boed. are Mammillaria antesbergi A.B.Lau (1991, nom. inval. ICBN -Article 29.1), Mammillaria crassa Repp. (1987) and Mammillaria antesbergiana A.B.Lau (1991).
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is called " Data Deficient (DD) ", i. H. with insufficient data.
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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. 414 .
- Ulises Guzmán, Salvador Arias, Patricia Dávila: Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas . Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 2003, ISBN 970-9000-20-9 , pp. 164 .
- 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. 85 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monthly of the German Cactus Society . Vol. 4, Berlin 1932, p. 199.
- ↑ Mammillaria wagneriana in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Fitz Maurice, B, Sotomayor, M., Fitz Maurice, WA & Hernández, HM, 2009. Retrieved December 27, 2013.