Family:
Cactaceae
Subfamily:
Cactoideae
Name:
Mammillaria tetrancistra Engelmann, Amer. Journ. Sci. II 14:337. 1852
Alt. Name:
Basionym:
See above
Synonyms:
Mammillaria phellosperma Engelmann, Proc. Amer. Acad. 3:262. 1856
Cactus phellospermus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1:261. 1891
Cactus tetrancistrus Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3:104. 1894
Phellosperma tetrancistra Britton & Rose, Cact. IV:60. 1923
Type:
Neotypus: Benson 1969, Ariz. 3: 163, Riverside Co., 0,5 mile above mouth of Whitewater Canyon, at edge of Colorado Desert, 1900 m, gravelly soil.
Type Locality:
San Felipe, California
Distribution:
Western Arizona, southeastern California, southern Utah and southern Nevada, probably northern Lower California.
Altitude:
Collection No:
Flowering:
Extra Info:
Seed with a corky arillus in same size of the seed or even larger.
Compiler:
Rothe, Jürgen / de / 2019.12.16.
