Mammillaria glochidiata
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Mammillaria glochidiata is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet glochidiata means '(Greek) glochis, inos point, with barbs, glochids occupied'.
description
Mammillaria glochidiata grows in irregular groups with cylindrical shiny fresh green shoots with a rounded apex and diameters of 2 to 3.5 centimeters. The cylindrical to conical warts are flaccid, fleshy, 1.2 to 1.6 inches long and are far apart. They do not contain milk juice . Some axillae are covered with bristles. The 1 to 4 dark yellow to reddish brown, needle-like central spines are 0.6 to 1.2 inches long. The lower central spine is hooked. The 9 to 11 horizontally radiating white radial spines are thread-thin, flexible, smooth and up to 1.2 centimeters long.
The bell-shaped white to pink flowers are up to 1.5 centimeters long and reach 1.2 centimeters in diameter. The club-shaped fruits are scarlet and up to 1.6 centimeters long. They contain brownish black seeds .
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Mammillaria glochidiata is common in the Mexican state of Hidalgo .
It was first described in 1832 by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius .
Synonyms are: Chilita glochidiata (Mart.) Orcutt (1926), Ebnerella glochidiata (Mart.) Buxb. (1951), Mammillaria wildii A. Dietr. (1836), Chilita wildii (A.Dietr.) Orcutt (1926), Ebnerella wildii (A.Dietr.) Buxb. (1951), Mammillaria crinita subsp. wildii (A.Dietr.) DRHunt (1997), Krainzia crinita subsp. wildii (A.Dietr.) Doweld (2000) and Mammillaria wildiana Otto ex Pfeiff. (1837).
Mammillaria glochidiata was in the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN in 2002 as " Extinct in the Wild (EW) , d". H. classified as extinct in nature. Few plants were found during an inspection of the natural site in 2007. In 2013 the species was named " Critically Endangered (CR) ". H. listed as critically endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 383 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of some new nopaleas . In: Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino . Volume 16, Number 1, 1832, pp. 337-338, (online) .
- ↑ Mammillaria glochidiata in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Listed by: Fitz Maurice, WA & Fitz Maurice, B., 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
