Friday, July 17, 2020

[Botany • 2020] Mammillaria breviplumosa (Cactaceae, Cacteae) • A New Species from Mexico


 Mammillaria breviplumosa 

in García-Morales, Ramírez-Chaparro, et al., 2020.

Abstract
A new species of Mammillaria, named Mammillaria breviplumosa, is described from Mexico (Durango, Municipality of Mapimí). It is morphologically very similar to M. sanchez-mejoradae. Diagnostic features of the proposed new species are the cylindrical and apically truncate tubercles, the embedded fruits, the white-magenta striped perianth segments, the small feather-like spines and the helicoidal arrangement of the tubercles on the stem. A diagnostic key for the closest species of Mammillaria occurring in northern Mexico is proposed.

Keywords: Chihuahuan Desert, Durango, Mammillaria ser. Lasiacanthae, taxonomy, Eudicots


    

 Mammillaria breviplumosa 



   

   


Leccinum J. García-Morales, Ricardo Ramírez-Chaparro, Alejandro Sigala-Chávez and Duilio Iamonico. 2020. Mammillaria breviplumosa (Cactaceae, Cacteae), A New Species from Mexico. Phytotaxa. 452(3); 231–235. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.452.3.6