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Mammillaria elegans, DC. (M. acanthophlegma, Lehm. M. Potosina, Hort. M. Klugii; Ehrb.). Simple, then proliferous and densely cespitose, depressed-globose, later lengthened: tubercles crowded, very small: radial spines more than 20, bristle-like, about 3 lines long, pure white, interwoven and covering the whole plant; central spines 2 (1-3), with brown tips, the one directed upward, the other downward, about twice as long as radials, in the axils abundant long white wool. Mex.
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