The Cactaceae - Britton&Rose
31. Neomammillaria lloydii sp. nov.
Plant-body at first flattened but in cultivation becoming elongated, sometimes 10 cm. long, 6 to 7 cm. in diameter; axils of young tubercles only slightly woolly; tubercles milky, small, numerous, 4-angled, woolly when quite young; radial spines 3 or 4, ascending, glabrous, the uppermost one red or dark brown, the others whitish, 2 to 5 mm. long; central spines none; flowers in a ring near center of plant; outer perianth-segments dark red with light or colored margins; inner perianth-segments white with a tinge of red, and dark-red central stripes, not ciliate, apiculate, spreading above; filaments pale below, pinkish above; style pinkish above.
Collected by F. E. Lloyd in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico, in ‘909, and flowered in Washington in 1911, 1912 (March), and 1915 (April).
 
Mammillaria lloydii
 
Mammillaria lloydii
 
Mammillaria lloydii
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