Mammillaria standleyi

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Kingdom Plantae Family Cactaceae Rank Species		Order Caryophyllales Genus Mammillaria

Similar Mammillaria sonorensis, Mammillaria wiesingeri, Mammillaria petrophila, Mammillaria phitauiana, Mammillaria bocensis

Mammillaria standleyi is a species of the family Cactaceae native to the Sierra Madre Occidental of Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Sonora. It has red-purple flowers surrounded by cottony pubescence. Fruits are red and edible, tasting like apples, although too small to be of much food value to humans.

Mammillaria standleyi Alamos Succs Mammillaria standleyi pitahayita pincushion cactus

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Mammillaria standleyi (Britt. & Rose) Orcutt, Cactography 8. 1926

Neomammillaria standleyi Britt. & Rose, Cact. 4: 97. 1923.

Mammillaria auricantha R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 301, fig. 272. 1945.

Mammillaria auritricha R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 302, fig. 273. 1945

Mammillaria laneusumma R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 310, fig. 282. 1945

Mammillaria mayensis R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 116, fig. 97. 1945

Mammillaria montensis R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 311, fig. 284. 1945.

Mammillaria craigii G.E. Linds., Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 303. 1942.

Mammillaria sonorensis Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (US) 12(10): 155. 1940.

Mammillaria sonorensis var brevispina Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 12: 156, fig 1940

Mammillaria sonorensis var gentryi Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 12: 156, fig 1940

Mammillaria sonorensis var hiltonii Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 12: 156, fig 1940

Mammillaria sonorensis var longispina Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 12: 156, fig 1940

Mammillaria sonorensis var maccartyi Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 12: 156, fig 1940

Mammillaria tesopacensis Craig, Mammill. Handbook 104, fig. 86. 1945

Mammillaria xanthina (Britton & Rose) Boed., Mammillarien-Vergleichs-Schluessel 47. 1933.

Neomammillaria xanthina Britton & Rose, Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 164. 1923

Chilita xanthina (Britton & Rose) Orcutt, Cactography 2. 1926.

Mammillaria bellisiana Craig, Mammill. Handb. 304 (1945)

Mammillaria movensis Craig, Mammill. Handb. 312, fig. 285 1945

Mammillaria tinuvieliae Laferr., J. Mammillaria Soc. 38(2): 21, fig. 1998

Mammillaria floresii Fritz Schwarz, Blätt. Sukkulentenk. 1: 5. 1949.

Mammillaria standleyi Consortium of Intermountain Herbaria Mammillaria standleyi

References

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