Xerophyte

Central Spines

None.

Seeds

Black.

Description

Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae f. proliferaSN|20653]]SN|20653]] is a selected clonal forms that distinguishes from the standard species for the very free clustering habit and the smallish bodies (less than 1,5 cm in diameter). It forms dense mounds with dozen of heads.

Tubercles

Conical, without latex, axils naked.

Flowers

Campanulate, up to 16 mm long and 20 mm in across variable from white to pink-rose.

Stem

Globose, bright green to 1,5 cm tall and in diameter.

Radial Spines

30 to 40 hairlike (or plumose) pectinate, rigid, white, flattened against the tubercles, 1,5-2 mm long (rarely up to 3 mm) long.

Fruits

Club shaped to globose, completely embedded in the plant (cryptocarpic), red, 3-8 mm in diameter.