Cochemiea thomasii


Cochemiea thomasii is a species of Cochemiea found in Mexico.

Description

Cochemiea thomasii forms large, slender clusters of hanging stems that are or longer. The cylindrical shoots are long and in diameter, with conical warts covered in white wool. It has 1–4 stiff, white with reddish-brown tipped central spines, long, which turn gray with age, and 10–15 radial spines that are initially white, turning brown to black, and are also long.
The red flowers bloom from young tubercles, measuring long, with a vertical, crooked-hemmed, and long flower tube. The fruits are ovoid, green to reddish-brown, and up to long.

Distribution

Plants are found growing near Cosalá, Sinaloa, in deciduous tropical forest growing on vertical rock cliffs from the coast towards the Sierra Madre Occidental at elevations between.

Taxonomy

This species was described in 2020 by Leccinum J. García Morales, Rodrigo González González, Jesús García Jiménez, and Duilio Iamonico, and named after Thomas Linzen, a German scholar of the genus Mammillaria.