Mammillaria scrippsiana

Mammillaria scrippsiana in habitat.......



Mammillaria scrippsiana WTH 1026
WTH 1026 - Along the side of the MEX-23, about 15km north of San Cristobal de la Barranca - Jalisco - Mexico





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

Mammillaria affinis scrippsiana WTH 1027
WTH 1027 - In hills along the road, a few km northeast of Mezquital del Oro - Zacatecas - Mexico





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






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

Mammillaria scrippsiana WTH 1175
WTH 1175 - In roadside cliffs between Jesus Maria and Mesa del Nayar - Nayarit - Mexico





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

Mammillaria scrippsiana forma LAU 1556
LAU 1556 - Los Bancos - Durango - Mexico

Mammillaria scrippsiana TL 722
TL 722 - San Josè - Jalisco - Mexico

Mammillaria scrippsiana SB 717
SB 717 - Magdalena - Jalisco - Mexico






Mammillaria scrippsiana ROG 507
ROG 507 - Jesus Maria - Najarit - Mexico
From Chris Davies collection - Amersham - U.K.






Mammillaria scrippsiana v. autlanensis H.O. 561
From Chris Davies collection - Amersham - U.K.

Mammillaria scrippsiana v. autlanensis

Mammillaria scrippsiana v. armeria REP 1618
REP 1618 - Apulco, 1100m - Jalisco - Mexico














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Mammillaria scrippsiana v. armeria REP 1618
REP 1618 - Apulco, 1100m - Jalisco - Mexico





Mammillaria scrippsiana v. armeria REP 1621
REP 1621 - Rio Armeria/Corobado, 1150m - Jalisco - Mexico
Photography and plant from "mammillariamaniac" Jonathan Mohl - Hamburg - Germany

Mammillaria scrippsiana subsp. schumacheri Linzen, subsp. nov. Lat. diagn.: Differt a M. scrippsiana subsp. scrippsiana germinibus non dense
coniunctis, quae facile seiunguntur. Ex base corporeque germlnans; mammilus subviri-dibus usque ad viridibus, axillis albide lanalis et saetatis; acuieis exterioribus 9-16, setiformibus; acuieis centralibus 2-4, acicularibus; floribus parvis, sulphureis; frucfibus albis; semine parviore, fusco.
Typus: Mexiko, Sinaloa, Mpio. Cosala, Sierra el Infierno, 380 m, 10.02.2003,
Rudi Schumacher (RS) 1076, prep. ex cult. T. Linzen, 06.2009 (Holotypus: JE; Körper & Blüten). Mexiko, Sinaloa, Mpio. Cosala, Sierra el Infierno, 380 m, 10.02-2003, Rudi Schumacher (RS) 1076 (Paratypus: JE; Früchte).
Description: Body spherical, later cylindrical, to 7 (-10) cm diameter, 10-30 cm long, later from the body and offsetting from the base. Offsets can be easily separated and often already have roots. Tubercles pale green to green.
Axils very white-woolly, occasionally with some short bristle hair. Areoles approx. 2-3 mm around, with white wool when young. Radial spines 9-16, 3-6 mm long, those at the sides and lower and the longest, sharp, horizontally spreading white, occasionally with a dark point. Central spines 2-4,6-9 mm long, comparatively long, acicular, cream-white to brownish, darker at the tip.
Flowers bowl to funnelshaped, sulphur-yellow, to 10 mm in diameter and long. External petals greenish yellow with a thin, more greenish to red-brown, centre line. Internal petals linear lanceolate, pointed, entire, sulphur-yellow. Stamens longer than the style. Stigma
lobes 4-5, yellow. Filaments white. Stamens pale yellow. Fruits short clavate, with a little perianth scar, 6 mm in diameter, 10-15 mm long, dirty-white and delicate pink, then yellowish-brown at the tip (Fig 10). Seeds mussel-shaped, brown, 0.7-0.8 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, 0.5 mm thick. Testa with tabular-concave, long cells whose central area is surrounded by a little raised anticlinal border in a U or Ω shape.
From "The Journal of the Mammillaria society" Vol.50 n.4 - November 2010





Mammillaria scrippsiana ssp. schumacheri TL 974
TL 974 - El Papachal - Sinaloa - Messico
From Chris Davies collection - Amersham - U.K.







Mammillaria scrippsiana ssp. schumacheri TL 974
TL 974 - El Papachal - Sinaloa - Messico

Mammillaria scrippsiana ssp. schumacheri JMC 5279
JMC 5279 - Cosala, MEX-15-Cosala, km.31.8 - Sinaloa - Mexico