Mammillaria wrightii var. wrightii
Common names: Wright’s fishhook cactus
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 250.
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Stem tubercles 8–24 mm. Radial spines usually 8–15 per areole. Flowers 2.5–7.5 cm diam. Fruits 12.5–26 mm diam.
Phenology: Flowering summer; fruiting fall.
Habitat: Semidesert grasslands, plains grasslands, pinyon-juniper woodlands, gentle slopes, mesas, valleys, usually on alluvial or igneous substrates
Elevation: 1200-2100(-3000) m
Distribution
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Ariz., N.Mex., Tex.
Discussion
Mammillaria wrightii var. wrightii is sometimes sympatric with M. viridiflora, but usually occupies deeper soils.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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darker +
cushionlike +
arillate +
absent +
separate +
circular to linear +
flowering +
absent +
glabrous +
vegetative +
naked +
woodlike +
hardened +
surrounding +
leaflike +
absent +
triangular +
crinkly +
anticlinal +
hooked +
sessile +
symmetric +
proliferating +
arising +
Wright’s fishhook cactus +
mucilaginous +
thick +
not separating +
intact +
persistent +
sessile +
symmetric +
arranged +
diurnal +
unconnected +
bisexual +
adnate +
epigynous +
conspicuous +
berrylike +
purple;dull;green +
drying +
indehiscent +
juicy +
absent +
Semidesert grasslands, plains grasslands, pinyon-juniper woodlands, gentle slopes, mesas, valleys, usually on alluvial or igneous substrates +
dense +
petal-like +
1.5mm;8.5mm +
conspicuously narrower +
bristlelike +
stiff +
longest +
thickest +
absent +
sessile +
alternate +
absent +
rudimentary +
tuberculate +
fluted;spheric;depressed-spheric or club-shaped +
paler +
apparent +
sepal-like +
true +
surrounding +
sunken +
epigynous +
compound +
mucilaginous +
parietal +
3;14 +
separated +
flowering +
coalescent +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
1856 +
vertical +
3;2;2;30 +
minute +
distant +
diffuse +
leaflike +
absent +
lacking +
triangular +
small +
black +
0.4mm;12mm +
1;3000 +
shiny +
pitted +
obovoid;pyriform;obovoid;pyriform;lenticular-reniform;comma--shaped;spheric +
persistent +
detachable +
bristlelike +
ribbonlike +
radial +
pliable +
absent +
glabrous +
50;1500 +
decurrent +
unsegmented +
flaccid +
4cm;8cm +
1;3;14 +
absent +
absent +
tuberculate +
woody +
adventitous +
adventitious +
tuberlike +
Mammillaria wrightii var. wrightii +
Mammillaria wrightii +
variety +
fringed +
5;50 +
hard +
not confluent +
distinct +
absent +
thickened +
straight +
sinuate +
unbranched +
perennial +
epiphytic;epiphytic;epiphytic +
deep-seated +