Cochemiea mainiae
{{Short description|Species of cactus}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Mammillaria mainiae.jpg
|status = LC
|status_system = IUCN3.1
|genus = Cochemiea
|species = mainiae
|authority = (K.Brandegee) P.B.Breslin & Majure
|synonyms =
- Chilita mainiae {{au|(K.Brandegee) Orcutt 1926}}
- Ebnerella mainiae {{au|(K.Brandegee) Buxb. 1951}}
- Mammillaria mainiae {{au|K.Brandegee 1900}}
- Neomammillaria mainiae {{au|(K.Brandegee) Britton & Rose 1923}}
}}
Cochemiea mainiae is a species of cactus in the subfamily Cactoideae, with the common name counterclockwise nipple cactus.{{PLANTS|id=MAMA6|taxon=Mammillaria mainiae|accessdate=29 June 2015}}
Description
Cochemiea mainiae grows both solitary and in clusters from the base. Its bright green, sometimes reddish, spherical to egg-shaped shoots reach 6-7 centimeters in height and 10-12 centimeters in diameter. The slightly inward-curving, cylindrical to conical warts lack milky juice and have bare axillae. The plant has 1-2 strong central spines, brown or yellow with dark tips, up to 1.5 centimeters long, and 8-15 slender, needle-like radial spines, yellow to white with dark tips, 1.2 centimeters long.
The pinkish-white flowers feature a striking purplish-pink central stripe, are 1.2 centimeters long, and equally wide. The bright red, small, spherical to ovoid fruits, containing black seeds.{{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 | pages=393–394}}
Distribution
Cochemiea mainiae is native to the Sonoran desert plains of Arizona in the US and the Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa growing in sand dunes, rocky slopes and hillsides and southwestern oak woodlands.{{cite web | title=Mammillaria mainae | website=LLIFLE | date=2013-08-04 | url=https://www.llifle.net/Encyclopedia/CACTI/Family/Cactaceae/9252/Mammillaria_mainae | ref={{sfnref | LLIFLE | 2013}} | access-date=2024-06-10}} {{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=bysa3|from this source=yes}}
Taxonomy
Initially described as Mammillaria mainiae in 1900 by Mary Katharine Brandegee, the species name honors its discoverer, Ms. F. M. Main. In 2021, Peter B. Breslin and Lucas C. Majure reclassified the species into the genus Cochemiea.{{cite web | title=Zoe | publisher=Zoe Publishing Co | volume=v.5:no.2 (1900:July) | date=1900 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/568104 | access-date=2024-06-10}}{{cite journal | last1=Breslin | first1=Peter B. | last2=Wojciechowski | first2=Martin F. | last3=Majure | first3=Lucas C. | title=Molecular phylogeny of the Mammilloid clade (Cactaceae) resolves the monophyly of Mammillaria | journal=Taxon | volume=70 | issue=2 | date=2021 | issn=0040-0262 | doi=10.1002/tax.12451 | pages=308–323}}
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Cochemiea mainiae|Cochemiea mainiae}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Cochemiea mainiae|Cochemiea mainiae}}
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Category:Plants described in 1900