Xerophyte

Central Spines

(3-)4, awl shaped, one straight slightly curved down-wards, the 3 upper ones slightly spreading, whitish or grey, with reddish tips, lower one curved inward and 10-20 mm long, upper ones diverging and to 12 mm long.

Seeds

Kidney-shaped 1.3 mm long,0.7 mm wide, shiny, netted, dark brown.

Description

Coryphantha glanduligeraSN|10204]]SN|10038]] is a solitary club-shaped cactus with yellow flowers borne near the apex on young areoles. The flower anatomy and the sweet fragrance of Coryphantha glanduligeraSN|10038]]SN|10038]] are very similar to that of Coryphantha echinoidea, its closest relative.

Roots

Thick taproot with narrow neck.

Note

The epithet “glanduligera” is derived from the Latin words glandula for 'gland' as well as -ger for 'carrying'.

Tubercles

Loosely arranged in 8 and 13 series, conical, to 14 mm long, axils and furrows with white wool and 1-2 prominent red glands.

Flowers

Yellow, funnel-shaped, sweetly fragrant, to 4 cm long and 7 cm in diameter. Filaments yellowish-white, anthers dark yellow. Style light yellow. Stigma lobes 7-12 whitish yellow,.

Stem

Inverted club shaped or egg-shaped (when young) to short columnar, dull dark leaf-green to dark blue-green, to 12 cm high and 6 cm in diameter. Apex somewhat depressed.

Radial Spines

(15-)17-20, spreading horizontally, needle-like, slightly curved to the body, rigid, grey to white, 9-17 mm long, upper 6-8 bundled in two layers often lighter with dark tips.

Fruits

Large (ca. 20 mm long,8 mm wide), green and juicy.

Areoles

Oval, 3 mm long, 2 mm wide, at first slightly woolly initially, then naked.