Weber, A.F. 



Echinocereus papillosus?! 



Cultivated by Pfersdorf under the name of mammillaria.Stem of the plant appears 

 hillocky. 



Flowers are very pretty with peristaminal spots and fixed red color. 

 Diurnal flowers, about 10 cms, oval and tuberculated. 

 Tubercles have bundles of white thorns. 



Tubules carry a small number of long squamous fascicles in which can alos be found 

 bundles of white thorns. 



Sepals are lanced, pale yellow, marked on their side by small purpuric stems. 



Petals are lanced with irregulär borders and have a painted terminal. They are pale brown- 



yellow with thorns on their base of red color; but they do not look like the petals. 



Stamen are grouped in bundles around the Stylus, also fiery red like the groove of the 



petals. 



Stylus is yellow and is above the staminal fascicles of the Stigma. There are 8-1 1 Stigma 

 that are very g reen with a lateral flower, that seems to come out of a groove of the 

 epidermis. 



