Mammillaria barbata

Mammillaria barbata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Mammillaria
Species: M. barbata
Binomial name
Mammillaria barbata
Engelm.

Mammillaria barbata Engelm. [1]is a small cactus native to Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango, with the common name greenflower nipple cactus.[2] It is found in mountainous locations in the Sierra Madre Occidental. [3] It has delicate white to pink flowers. The fruits are red and oblong. They are edible but too small to be of much food value to humans.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ Engelm. in Wisliz., Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico: connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition in 1846 and 1847 105–106. 1848.
  2. ↑ "Mammillaria barbata". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Laferrière, Joseph E. 1994b. Vegetation and flora of the Mountain Pima village of Nabogame, Chihuahua, Mexico. Phytologia 77:102-140.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891.
  6. ↑ Orcutt, Cactography 2. 1926.
  7. ↑ Sukkulenty 3(1-2): 38. 2000
  8. ↑ Buxb., Oesterr. Bot. Z. 98: 89. 1951.
  9. ↑ Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 144, fig. 159. 1923
  10. ↑ Lodé, Cact. Aventures 16: 17. 1992.
  11. ↑ Cowper, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 42: 14, 93. 1970.
  12. ↑ Cowper, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 41: 208. 1969
  13. ↑ Cowper, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 41: 248. 1969.
  14. ↑ Cowper, Natl. Cact. Succ. J. xviii. 8. 1963
  15. ↑ Laferriere, J. Mammillaria Soc. 38(2):18. 1998.
  16. ↑ Benson, Cacti Ariz. ed. 3, 22, 155. 1969.
  17. ↑ Boed., Mammillarien-Vergleichs-Schluessel 36. 1933.
  18. ↑ Orcutt, Cactography 2 1926
  19. ↑ Marshall, Desert. Bot. Gard. Arizona, Sci. Bull. 1: 102. 1950
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