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Leptocladia microhelia (Werderm.) Buxb.
Oesterr. Bot. Wochenbl. 98: 82. 1951
Family: CACTACEAE

Accepted Scientific Name: Mammillaria microhelia Werderm.
Monatsschr. Deutsch. Kakteen-Ges. 2: 236 1930

Leptocladia microhelia (Mammillaria microhelia) Photo by: Frikkie Hall
The flowers, originally described as pale yellowish or almost white by Werdermann, may by white, yellowish-green pinkish or purplish. Has creamy-white to purplish flowers in spring.

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Mammillaria microhelia Werderm.
Monatsschr. Deutsch. Kakteen-Ges. 2: 236 1930
Synonymy: 8
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SPANISH (Español): Biznaguita

Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Mammillaria microhelia group

  • Mammillaria microhelia Werderm.: has a columnar stems. Flowers creamy-white, pink or purplish. Radial spines 30-50 white to yellowish. Centrals 1-4, sometimes absent, occasionally as many as 8(-11) dark reddish brown. Distribution: Queretaro, Mexico.
  • Mammillaria microhelia var. microheliopsis (Werderm.) Backeb.: stems almost spherical, radial spines 30-40, central spines 6-8, flowers mostly pink or purplish. Distribution: unknown (originally described from cultivated plants).

26424 diegoe Diego Armentano
Leptocladia microhelia (Mammillaria microhelia) Photo by: Diego Armentano
27463 frikkie Frikkie Hall
Leptocladia microhelia (Mammillaria microhelia) Photo by: Frikkie Hall

26849 frikkie Frikkie Hall
Leptocladia microhelia (Mammillaria microhelia) Photo by: Frikkie Hall
26423 diegoe Diego Armentano
Leptocladia microhelia (Mammillaria microhelia) Photo by: Diego Armentano

27749 alexander Alexander Arzberger
Leptocladia microhelia (Mammillaria microhelia) Photo by: Alexander Arzberger
25357 carolina Carolina González
Leptocladia microhelia (Mammillaria microhelia) Photo by: Carolina González

26848 frikkie Frikkie Hall
Leptocladia microhelia (Mammillaria microhelia) Photo by: Frikkie Hall
21997 julio Julio C. García
Mammillaria microhelia (white spines form? hybrid?) (Mammillaria microhelia) Photo by: Julio C. García

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Mammillaria microhelia (white spines form? hybrid?)
by Julio C. García

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