Species of cactus
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Cochemiea armillata is a species of "Cochemiea" found in Mexico.
Description.
"Cochemiea armillata" initially grows solitary but later forms groups. The plants are slender, cylindrical, and can reach up to in height and in diameter, which usually grows with 3 to 12 stems that emerge at the height of the base or sometimes higher. They have firm, blue-green, conical to cylindrical warts without milky sap. The axillae are covered with wool and bristles. Each plant has 1 to 4 strong, yellowish-gray central spines, which darken with age and are partly hooked, measuring long. The 9 to 15 grayish white radial spines are thin, bristly, straight, and long.
The bell-shaped or funnel-shaped flowers are pink-creamy yellow, long, bell-shaped or funnel-shaped up to in diameter. The filaments are pink with yellow anthers. The stigma is also pink, with 5 to 7 lobes up to long, pinkish red. The red, club-shaped fruits are long and in diameter, containing black seeds, up to long by wide.
Distribution.
"Cochemiea armillata" is native to Baja California Sur, Mexico ranging from San José del Cabo area and as far as La Paz.
Taxonomy.
It was first described as "Mammillaria armillata" in 1900 by Mary Katharine Brandegee. The specific epithet "armillata" is Latin for 'decorated with clasps,' referring to the species' thorns. In 2021, Peter B. Breslin and Lucas C. Majure reclassified it into the genus "Cochemiea".
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