Mammillaria similis Engelmann et A. Gray, Boston Journal of Natural History, 5(2): 246. 1845.
Engelmann, G. and Gray, A.: Plantae Lindheimerianae; An Enumeration of the Plants Collected in Texas, and Distributed
to Subscriberes, by F. Lindheimer, with Remarks, and Descriptions of new Species, &.c., Boston Journal of Natural History,
5(2): 210-264. 1845.
Description:
Mammillaria similis (n. sp.)
Caespitosa; axillis tuberculorum juniorum paulo tomentosis demum glabris; tuberculis ovatis supra leviter sulcatis
(sulco basin versus subtomentoso) apice spiniferis; spinis (circ. 12) aequalibus rectis radiantibus albidis,
junioribus puberulis basique tomento circumdatis; baccis sparsis globosis coccineis. - Sandstone rocks, near
Industry. Evidently near M. simplex, at least to Nuttall's plant of that name, but caespitose, forming tufts
often a foot in diameter. Flowers not seen. Berries scarlet, of the size of a large pea. Seeds numerous,
subglobose, scrobiculate, black, with an elongated white hilum. I have living plants, but they have not yet
flowered.
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