Mammillaria plumosa

Mammillaria plumosa

Mammillaria plumosa is a species of the genus Mammillaria in the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet means plumosa, feathery, sprung '.

Description

Mammillaria plumosa forms up to 40 inches wide, undulating groups. The individual plant body are thereby only 6 to 7 inches in height and diameter. The individual plants consist of 8 to 13 very soft and cylindrical shaped warts cause which no milk juice. The axillae are very woolly. About 40 white and soft spines with only 3-7 millimeters in length lead to the feathery ( sprung ) impression and have finally contributed to the naming. Central spines are not present.

The white and only 15 millimeters wide flowers appear, as with all Mammillarias, in wreath. The fruits are cubic shaped, deep purple and just like the flowers 15 millimeters in size. The seeds are blackish brown to black.

Distribution, systematics and hazard

Mammillaria plumosa is partially located in the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas and occurs in 780-1350 meters above sea level.

The first description was in 1898 by Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber.

Synonyms are described in the following ways and varieties: Neomammillaria plumosa ( FACWeber ) Britton & Rose ( 1923), Chilita plumosa ( FACWeber ) Orcutt (1926) and Escobariopsis plumosa ( FACWeber ) Doweld ( 2000).

In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN is the species as " Near Threatened (NT) ", ie out to be low risk.

Evidence