Mammillaria glochidiata
Mammillaria glochidiata
Mammillaria glochidiata is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet glochidiata means (Greek ) glochis, inos tip with barbs occupied glochids '.
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 fleshy flaccid, 1.2 to 1.6 inches long and are far apart. They contain no latex. Some axillae are covered with bristles. The 1-4 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, pliable, smooth and up to 1.2 inches long.
The bell-shaped white to pink flowers are up to 1.5 inches long and can reach a diameter of 1.2 centimeters. The club-shaped fruits are scarlet and up to 1.6 inches long. They contain brownish black seeds.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Mammillaria glochidiata is common in the Mexican state of Hidalgo.
The first description was in 1832 by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Synonyms are: Chilita glochidiata ( Mart. ) Orcutt (1926 ), Ebner Ella glochidiata ( Mart. ) Buxb. (1951 ), Mammillaria wildii A.Dietr. (1836 ), Chilita wildii ( A.Dietr. ) Orcutt (1926 ), Ebner Ella 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 was glochidiata in the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN in 2002 as " Extinct in the Wild ( EW) ," ie, as extinct in nature, classified. In a celebration of the natural site in 2007, a few plants were found. In 2013, the species as " Critically Endangered (CR ) ', ie threatened with extinction than out.