Mammillaria columbiana subsp. columbiana
Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Mammillaria ruestii, Neomammillaria yucatanensis, Mammillaria yucatanensis, Mammillaria hennisii, Mammillaria soehlemannii, Mammillaria chiapensis
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Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Cacteae
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Distribution:
Chiapas, Yucatan - Mexico : Honduras : Guatemala : Nicaragua : Jamaica - Greater Antilles
: Netherland Antilles (Bonaire, Curacao) - Lesser Antilles : Boyaca, Huila, Norte de Santander - Colombia : Lara, Tachira, Trujillo - Venezuela (North America, South America, Central America, West Indies - Carribean)
Habit: Cylindrical
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| Flower: Pink | Encounterability: Common Worldwide |
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| Species Notes: Subspecies columbiana is primarily a solitary plant with golden-yellow central spines. Its distribution is distinct from ssp. yucatanensis. |
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M. columbiana subsp. columbiana
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Picture taken at: Daiv Freeman's Private Collection
Photographer: Daiv Freeman
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M. columbiana subsp. columbiana
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Picture taken at: Habitat in Nicaragua
Photographer: Leland Smith
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M. columbiana subsp. columbiana
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Picture taken at: Private Collection
Photographer: Joel Lode
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Mammillaria columbiana subsp. yucatanensis
Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Mammillaria ruestii, Neomammillaria yucatanensis, Mammillaria yucatanensis, Mammillaria hennisii, Mammillaria soehlemannii, Mammillaria chiapensis
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| Species Notes: Subspecies yucatanensis has yellow-brown to red-brown central spines and forms small clumps of short-cylindrical stems. |
Original Description: The Cactaceae 4
p.114 - Britton & Rose (1920)Plants in clumps of 4, erect, cylindric, not milky, 10 to 15 cm long, 3 to 6 cm in diameter, very spiny; tubercles conic, woolly in their axils but not setose; radial spines about 20, white, spreading, acicular, cetnral spines 4 or rarely 5, much stouter than the radials, 6 to 8 mm long, slightly spreading above, yellowish brown; "flowers very small, rose; fruit oblong, bright red." |
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M. columbiana subsp. yucatanensis
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Picture taken at: Desert Botanical Gardens - Phoenix, AZ
Photographer: Mike Wisnev
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M. columbiana subsp. yucatanensis
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Picture taken at: Juergen Menzel's Private Collection
Photographer: Juergen Menzel
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M. columbiana subsp. yucatanensis
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Picture taken at: Private Collection
Photographer: Joel Lode
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