Mammillaria brauneana Boed.

 

Description: Mammillaria brauneana is a local or morphological form of Mammillaria klissingiana with white-woolled, bristled axils, violet blossoms, and carmine-red fruit. It is distinguished from Mammillaria klissingiana by the smaller body, less of radial spines, another central spines colouration and darker flower colour. Although Mammillaria brauneana lacks the obvious eye-catching attributes of the related and better known Mammillaria hahniana it is, nevertheless, notable for its symmetry and spine formation.
Habit: Plants solitary to sometimes branching at the base and forming large mounds up to 40 cm across.
Roots: Fibrous.
Stems: Flattened globose to globose, to 12 cm in diameter and 8 cm high, dull green, apex depressed, somewhat woolly and spiny. With latex.
and 9 cm in diameter.
Tubercles: Firm, short and broad pyramidal, 3-4 mm at base.
Axil: With wool and bristles.
Central: Spines 2-4, awl-like, straight, thicker at base, reddish brown with black tip, 5-7 mm long.
Radial spines: 25-30, horizontal radiating, white, bristle like, straight, the uppermost somewhat shorter, to 5 mm long.
Flowers: Reddish violet, purplish-red or deep pink, to 13 mm long and across.
Flowering period: Spring (April-May in Europe)
Fruits: Club shaped, carmine, 5-6 mm long.
Seeds: Yellowish to brown, pear-shaped, 1 mm long and in diameter.

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