Mammillaria bombycina
Mammillaria bombycina
Mammillaria bombycina is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet bombycina means of the silkworm, silky, seidenwollig '.
Description
Mammillaria bombycina is a style that makes up to 80 centimeters large groups. The individual shoots sprout from the base very easily, which greatly accelerates this process. They are globose to clavate, pale green and reach up to 20 centimeters in length and 6 inches in diameter. The vertices are often depressed. The individual about 11-18 warts are firm, conical to cylindrical and slightly rounded. The areolae are round later extended with some wool. The axillae are provided with plenty of wool. The 30 to 40 radial spines are only between 2 to 10 millimeters long, dünnadelig, stiff and white. Approximately 2 to 4 central spines are also only 0.7 to 2 inches long. You are dünnadelig, stiff and amber to white. The ultimates are also the longest.
The small funnel-shaped flowers are 1.5 inches tall and are bright ruby color with darker markings. The fruits are whitish to clavate. The very small seeds are black.
Distribution, systematics and hazard
Mammillaria bombycina is common in the Mexican states of Jalisco and Aguascalientes and occurs at altitudes 2340-2500 meters.
The first description was in 1910 by Leopold Quehl ( 1849-1923 ).
Synonyms are the following species and varieties described: Mammillaria cordigera Heese (1910 ), Neomammillaria bombycina ( Quehl ) Britton & Rose ( 1923), Chilita bombycina Orcutt (1926 ), Ebner Ella bombycina ( Quehl ) F.Buxb. (1951 ), Mammillaria bombycina subsp. perezdelarosae ( Bravo & Scheinvar ) DRHunt (1997) and Escobariopsis bombycina ( Quehl ) Doweld ( 2000).
In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN, the type is known as " Vulnerable (VU) ," ie, performed as endangered.