Mammillaria coahuilensis

Mammillaria coahuilensis in habitat.......



Mammillaria coahuilensis WTH 1158
WTH 1228 - North of Vanegas - San Luis Potosì - Mexico



Photograph in habitat by Wolter ten Hoeve - Assen - The Netherlands

Mammillaria coahuilensis in habitat.......



Mammillaria coahuilensis WTH 1228
WTH 1228 - Flat area east of Estacion Fuerte - Zacatecas - Mexico



Photograph in habitat by Wolter ten Hoeve - Assen - The Netherlands






Photograph in habitat by Wolter ten Hoeve - Assen - The Netherlands






Photograph in habitat by Wolter ten Hoeve - Assen - The Netherlands

Mammillaria coahuilensis in habitat.......



Mammillaria coahuilensis
Vanegas - San Luis Potosì - Mexico
Photograph in habitat by Ricardo Ramirez Chaparro - Baborigame, Southern Chihuahua, Mexico

M. coahuilensis (Boed.) Moran in Gentes Herbarum 8: 324. 1953.
Porfiria coahuilensis Boed. in Zeitachr. f. Sukk. 2 (pt.13:) 210-13.1926. Haagea schwartzii Fric in Zivot v Pirode 29. 1925 and in Moller's
Deutsche G&rtnerZeitung 41 (pt. 18): 219. 1926, nom illegit. Not Haagea Kl. (Begoniaceae). Porfiria schwartaii (Fric) Boed. in Zeitschr. f. Sukk. 3:39. 1927- Not Mammillaria schwarzii Shurly.
Stem simple, pronouncedly tuberous at the base and bearing the dried remains of old tubercles, bluish, with milky sap;
tubercles trigonous; axils sparsely woolly.
Central spine 1, 6mm. long, straight, acicular, brownish tipped;
radial spines about 16, somewhat weaker, grey-white, the lower longer up to 6mm. long; all spines finely pubescent.
Fls. 3cm. in diameter; outer perianth segments rose with brownish mid-stripe, inner white with rose mid-stripe; stigmas 5, pale yellow-green . Fr. clavate, red; seeds described as dark brown, pitted.
Mexico: Coahuila, near San Pedro. Described from living plants imported into Germany
From "The Journal of the Mammillaria Society"  Vol.III  n. 5  October 1968





Mammillaria coahuilensis  SB 699
SB 699 - Hipolito - Coahuila - Mexico
From Giuseppe Ruini collection - Rubiera (RE)






Mammillaria coahuilensis  SB 699
SB 699 - Hipolito - Coahuila - Mexico

Mammillaria coahuilensis  SB 699
SB 699 - Hipolito - Coahuila - Mexico

Mammillaria coahuilensis TL 944
TL 944 - North of Vanegas - San luis Potosì - Mexico
From Wolter ten Hoeve Collection - Assen - The Netherlands

Mammillaria coahuilensis ML 563
ML 563 - Laguna de Viesca, 1230m - Coahuila - Mexico

Mammillaria coahuilensis HK 1653
HK 1653 - Collector: Horst Kuenzler - Coahuila - Mexico

M. albiarmata Boedeker, in Jahrb. Deutsch.Kakt.Ges.1:67. 1956-6
Roots thick, tuberous;
Stem solitary, depressed, sap milky;
Axils+naked.
Central spines.0;
Radial spines 20-25, (2-) 5-6 mm,, the upper shorter.
Flowers 2cm. in diameter, creamy white with darker midline to outer perianth segments; stigmas (pale pink or) greish yellow (to white).
Seeds brown.
Mexico: Coahuila: Near Saltillo.
Collected by Schwars and Backeberg, but the nomenclatural type was probably not preserved.
From "The Journal of the Mammillaria Society"  Vol.7   n. 4  August 1967




Mammillaria coahuilensis ssp. albiarmata
Seeds from Mesa-Garden - MG 552
From Antonio Gandolfo collection - Vicenza

Mammillaria coahuilensis ssp. albiarmata
From "Ento" Ennio Toso collection - Savona