Mammillaria glochidiata Mart.
fishhook pincushion cactus
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Summary
Mammillaria glochidiata is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known from the Barranca de Tolimán in Hidalgo. Its natural habitat is hot deserts. It was classed as Extinct in the wild but since 2013, it has been classed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List.
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About the genus · Mammillaria
Mammillaria is one of the largest genera in the cactus family (Cactaceae), with currently about 170 to 190 accepted species and around 99 subspecies. Most of the mammillarias are native to Mexico, while some come from the Southwestern United States, the Caribbean, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela. The common name "pincushion cactus" refers to this genus and the closely related Escobaria.
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Also known as Cactus ancistroides (Lehm.) Kuntze; Cactus glochidiatus (Mart.) Kuntze; Cactus wildianus (Otto ex Pfeiff.) Kuntze; Chilita ancistroides (Lehm.) Buxb.; Chilita glochidiata (Mart.) Orcutt and 20 more.
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Mammillaria, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
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Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Mammillaria glochidiata, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Other Mammillaria 132 in the reference
Mammillaria albicoma Cactaceae
Mammillaria albiflora Cactaceae
Mammillaria albilanata Cactaceae Mammillaria anniana Bernal Cactus
Mammillaria arreolae Cactaceae
Mammillaria aureilanata Cactaceae Mammillaria backebergiana Cactaceae
Mammillaria baumii Cactaceae Mammillaria bertholdii Cactaceae
Mammillaria bocasana Powderpuff Cactus
Mammillaria bocensis Cactaceae Mammillaria boelderliana Cactaceae all 133 ›History & registers
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