Cochemiea barbata
{{Short description|Species of cactus}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = MammillariaBarbata BotGart-Valencia 20191130.jpg
|status = LC
|status_system = IUCN3.1
|genus = Cochemiea
|species = barbata
|authority = (Engelm.) Doweld
|synonyms =
- Mammillaria barbata Engelm. 1848.
- Cactus barbatus (Engelm. in Wisliz.) Kuntze, 1891.Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891.
- Chilita barbata (Engelm. in Wisliz.) Orcutt 1926.Orcutt, Cactography 2. 1926.
- Ebnerella barbata (Engelm. in Wisliz.) Buxb. 1951.Buxb., Oesterr. Bot. Z. 98: 89. 1951.
- Neomammillaria barbata (Engelm. in Wisliz.) Britton & Rose, 1923.Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 144, fig. 159. 1923
- Mammillaria barbata var. garessii (Cowper) Lodé, 1992.Lodé, Cact. Aventures 16: 17. 1992.
- Mammillaria garessii Cowper 1970.Cowper, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 42: 14, 93. 1970.
- Mammillaria barbata var. morricalii (Cowper) Lodé, 1992.
- Mammillaria morricalii Cowper, 1969.Cowper, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 41: 208. 1969
- Mammillaria barbata var. santaclarensis (Cowper) Lodé, 1992.
- Mammillaria santaclarensis Cowper, 1969.Cowper, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 41: 248. 1969.
- Mammillaria chavezei Cowper, 1963 [invalid name]Cowper, Natl. Cact. Succ. J. xviii. 8. 1963
- Mammillaria melilotiae Laferr., 1998.Laferriere, J. Mammillaria Soc. 38(2):18. 1998.
- Mammillaria luthieniae Laferr., 1998.
- Mammillaria orestera L.D.Benson, 1969.Benson, Cacti Ariz. ed. 3, 22, 155. 1969.
- Mammillaria viridiflora (Britton & Rose) Boed. 1933.Boed., Mammillarien-Vergleichs-Schluessel 36. 1933.
- Chilita viridiflora (Britton & Rose) Orcutt 1926.Orcutt, Cactography 2 1926
- Mammillaria wilcoxii var. viridiflora (Britton & Rose) W.T.Marshall, 1950Marshall, Desert. Bot. Gard. Arizona, Sci. Bull. 1: 102. 1950
- Mammillaria wrightii var. viridiflora (Britton & Rose) W.T.Marshall 1950
- Neomammillaria viridiflora Britton & Rose, 1923
}}
Cochemiea barbataEngelm. in Wisliz., Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico: connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition in 1846 and 1847 105–106. 1848. is a small cactus native to Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango, with the common name greenflower nipple cactus.{{PLANTS|id=MABA9|taxon=Mammillaria barbata|accessdate=29 June 2015}}
Description
Cochemiea barbata grows either solitary or with multiple heads, forming dense cushions. The plant bodies are depressed, spherical to briefly cylindrical, and about {{cvt|3 to 4|cm}} in diameter. The soft, spherical to cylindrical warts lack milky juice. The axillae are naked. The 1 to 4 central spines are stiff, brown to reddish-brown or orange-brown, and up to {{cvt|2|cm}} long, with 1 or 2 being heavily hooked. The 16 to 60 marginal spines are in several rows, mostly hairy, whitish to yellowish with darker tips, and {{cvt|0.6 to 0.8|cm}} long.
The flowers are {{cvt|1.5 to 3|cm}} long and wide, varying in color from white, light pink to yellowish, pink to orange, or brownish to greenish. The outer perianth segments are ciliated. The elongated fruits are green to purple or dark red, up to {{cvt|1|cm}} in diameter, and contain dark reddish-brown seeds.Laferrière, Joseph E., Charles W. Weber and Edwin A. Kohlhepp. 1991. Use and nutritional composition of some traditional Mountain Pima plant foods. Journal of Ethnobiology 11(1):93-114.{{cite book | last=Anderson | first=Edward F. | title=Das große Kakteen-Lexikon | publisher=Ulmer | publication-place=Stuttgart (Hohenheim) | date=2011 | isbn=978-3-8001-5964-2 | language=de | page=370}}
Distribution
Cochemiea barbata is found in Arizona, and New Mexico, USA, and Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango, Mexico in mountainous locations in the Sierra Madre Occidental.Laferrière, Joseph E. 1994b. Vegetation and flora of the Mountain Pima village of Nabogame, Chihuahua, Mexico. Phytologia 77:102-140.
Taxonomy
First described as Mammillaria barbata by George Engelmann in 1848, the specific epithet "barbata" is Latin for "bearded", referring to the ciliated perianth segments.{{cite book | last1=Britton | first1=Nathaniel Lord | last2=Eaton | first2=Mary E. | last3=Rose | first3=J. N. | last4=Wood | first4=Helen Adelaide | title=The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family | publisher=Carnegie Institution of Washington | publication-place=Washington | year=1919 | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.46288 | pages=144–145}} Alexander Borissovitch Doweld reclassified it to the genus Cochemiea in 2000.
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Cochemiea barbata|Cochemiea barbata}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Cochemiea barbata|Cochemiea barbata}}
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Category:Endemic flora of Mexico
Category:Flora of the Chihuahuan Desert