Cochemiea wrightii
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Cactaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cactoideae |
| Genus: | Cochemiea |
| Species: | C. wrightii
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| Cochemiea wrightii (Engelm.) Doweld 2000
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Cochemiea wrightii is a species of Cochemiea found in Mexico and the southern United States.[2]
Description[edit]
Cochemiea wrightii grows as a solitary cactus with dark green, flattened, spherical to briefly cylindrical shoots measuring 3 to 8 centimeters in diameter. The cylindrical warts do not produce milky juice, and the axillae are bare. It has up to 3 dark, hooked central spines, each 1 to 1.2 centimeters long. There are also up to 12 whitish marginal spines, 8 to 12 millimeters long, with the upper ones being shorter and dark-tipped.
The flowers are magenta to bright purple, rarely white, and up to 2.5 centimeters long and wide, with perianth segments that are reflexed. The egg-shaped to spherical fruits are purple, up to 2.5 centimeters long, and contain black seeds.[3]
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Distribution[edit]
Cochemiea wrightii is found in the US states of Arizona and New Mexico, and in the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua at elevations of 1000 to 2200 meters. Plants are found growing in sandy hills and grasslands growing among Echinocereus polyacanthus and Cochemiea saboae subsp. haudeana.[4]
Taxonomy[edit]
The species was first described as Mammillaria wrightii by George Engelmann in 1856.[5] The specific epithet honors American botanist Charles Wright, who researched Texas and Cuba.[6] In 2000, Alexander Borissovitch Doweld reclassified the species into the genus Cochemiea.
References[edit]
- ^ Univ., Martin Terry (Sul Rose State; College, Kenneth Heil (San Juan; Mexico, New; Ambiental), Rafael Corral-Díaz (Consultor (2009-11-17). "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
- ^ "Cochemiea wrightii (Engelm.) Doweld". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
- ^ Anderson, Edward F. (2011). Das große Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart (Hohenheim): Ulmer. p. 415. ISBN 978-3-8001-5964-2.
- ^ "Cochemiea wrightii". LLIFLE. 2013-08-04. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
- ^ Schumann, Karl Moritz; Hirscht, Karl. (1899). Gesamtbeschreibung der Kakteen (Monographia cactacearum) /von Karl Schumann. Neudamm [Dębno, Poland?]: J. Neumann. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10394.
- ^ Arts, American Academy of (1852). "Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Metcalf and Co. ISSN 0199-9818. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
External links[edit]
Media related to Cochemiea wrightii at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Cochemiea wrightii at Wikispecies
