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Mammillaria standleyi
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Scientific classification
Genus:
Mammillaria
Species:
standleyi
Synonyms
  • Mammillaria auricantha R.T. Craig
  • Mammillaria canelensis R.T. Craig
  • Mammillaria craigii G.E. Linds.
  • Mammillaria sonorensis R.T. Craig
  • Mammillaria tesopacensis Craig
  • Neomammillaria standleyi Britton & Rose
  • Neomammillaria xanthina Britton & Rose

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.

Synonyms

  • 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.

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