Coryphantha (Engelm.) Lem.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Cactaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Stems globose or ovoid, tubercled. Tubercles conic or cylindric, woolly and with clusters of spines at the apex. Leaves none. Flowers borne in areolae at the bases of the tubercles. Calyx-tube prolonged beyond the ovary, which is often hidden between the tubercles. Petals in several rows. Ovary smooth, ovoid; style filiform. Berry emersed, crowned by the withering corolla. [Greek name of some prickly plant.] About 300 described species, natives of warm and tropical America. Type species: Mammillaria sulcolanata Lemaire.