Mammillaria temorisensis sp. nov. ( Rogozinski et Plein)

Mammillaria temorisensis sp. nov. ( Rogozinski et Plein)
Mitteilungsblatt des Arbeitskreises für Mammillarienfreunde e.V. p.:144-152. 2008


Body: Single or strongly offsetting, often building large clusters, pale grey-green, depressed globose, single head 11-15 cm in diameter and
8-10 cm long and 4-7 cm wide. Apex sunken, woolly, overtopped by red-brown central spines and closed by white radial spines.


Roots: Fibrous.

Sap: With watery sap.

Tubercules: In new growth with small pads of curly white tomentum, later almost naked with scarce yellow-brown tomentum, oval, 2mm wide and 3 mm long.

Axil: In the floral zone with dense curly, white wool, towering above the tubercles and with long, tortuous, white bristles, towering above the tubercles.

Radial spine: 20- 24 (26), white with 2 mm red-brown tip, the lower and lateral ones often longer than the central spines, to 14 mm, straight, stiff, aciculate,
often woven, somewhat projecting, the upper ones shorter, thinner, mostly a little bent and twisted, radiating horizontaly or curved back to the body.

Central spine: 4, crosswise, brown-red, tipped darker, towards the base lighter, amber coloured, at base bulbously thickened, somewhat
projecting in the tubercle axis, straight or little bent backwards to the body, all of equal length, the lowest occasionally a little bit longer, 10-12 mm long.

Flower: Campanulate-funnel shaped, bright carmine-red, 20 mm long, with whitish-green funnel, 18 mm wide, perianths bent outwards.

Fruit: Purple-red with a straw-coloured perianth rest, clavate, 2-3 cm long and to 6 mm in diameter .

Seed: Brown.

Geographic Distribution: Mexico, Chihuahua, Municipio Chinipas, Témoris 1682m.


photo:Chris Davies
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