Mammillaria weingartiana
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Mammillaria weingartiana is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the German cactus connoisseur and collector from Thuringia Wilhelm Weingart .
description
Mammillaria weingartiana grows individually or in groups with spherical, bulbous, slightly shiny dark green shoots 4 to 5 centimeters in diameter. The warts are slender conical. They do not contain milk juice . The axillae are bare. Initially there is 1 hooked central spine . Later it is 2 to 3. The central spines are straight, dark reddish brown and up to 12 millimeters long. The 16 to 25 radial spines are white and 6 to 8 millimeters long.
The light greenish yellow to creamy yellow flowers have a reddish brown central stripe and lashed edges. They are up to 1 centimeter long. The club-shaped, small fruits are red and contain black seeds .
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Mammillaria weingartiana is common in the Mexican state of Nuevo León .
It was first described in 1932 by Friedrich Bödeker . Synonyms of Mammillaria weingartiana Boed. are Ebnerella weingartiana (Boed.) Buxb. (1951), Chilita weingartiana (Boed.) Buxb. (1954, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.3), Escobariopsis weingartiana (Boed.) Doweld (2000) and Mammillaria unihamata Boed. (1937).
Mammillaria weingartiana was in the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN in 2002 as " Vulnerable (VU) , d". H. endangered, classified. In 2013 it was named “ Least Concern (LC) ”. H. listed as not endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 415 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 256.
- ↑ Monthly of the German Cactus Society . Volume 4, 1932, 219-220.
- ↑ Mammillaria weingartiana in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Fitz Maurice, WA & Fitz Maurice, B., 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2013.