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Endangered
CITES App. II
Neomammillaria kewensis
Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 104, fig. 106. 1923
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Neomammillaria kewensis
Author
(Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose
Chinese genus
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Chinese name
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Primary
Accepted
DescriptionEdit description
Central Spines
Looking like radials and often confused with them, sometimes only 2 at first and pointing up and down, of which the lowermost longer, later 3 to 6, somewhat spreading, brown with dark tips, 4-17 (rarely to 25) mm long.
Tubercles
Short, terete, when young short-woolly in the axils and at the areoles. Axils of tubercles bearing crisp hairs.
Flowers
About 15 mm long, reddish purple; perianth-segments lanceolate, acute; stigma-lobes 5, reddish.
Stem
Globose to cylindric, 3 to 4 cm. in diameter.
Radial Spines
Absent or rudimentary.