Mammillaria spinosissima

Mammillaria spinosissima

Mammillaria spinosissima

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Cactaceae
Subfamilia: Cactoideae
Tribus: Cacteae
Genus: Mammillaria
Subgenus: M. subg. Mammillaria
Sectio: M. sect. Subquadrispinae
Series: M. ser. Polyacanthae
Species: Mammillaria spinosissima
Subspecies: M. s. subsp. pilcayensis – M. s. subsp. spinosissima – M. s. subsp. tepoxtlana

Name

Mammillaria spinosissima Lem., Cact. Aliq. Nov. 1: 4 (1838).

Synonyms

• Cactus spinosissimus (Lem.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Neomammillaria spinosissima (Lem.) Britton & Rose, Cactaceae 4: 117–119, f. 124–125. 1923 syn. sec. Korotkova 2021
  • Cactus cylindricus Ortega, Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec.: 128. 1800, nom. illeg., syn. sec. POWO. Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1 [non Cactus cylindricus Lam. 1785]
  • Cactus coronatus Willd., Enum. Pl., Suppl.: 30. 1814, nom. illeg., syn. sec. Leuenberger 20042
• Mammillaria coronata G.Don f., Hort. Brit.: 194. 1830 syn. sec. POWO. Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. : 20 mar 2021
  • Mammillaria coronaria Haw., Saxifrag. Enum. 2: 69. 1821 syn. sec. Hunt 1987
  • Mammillaria polycentra A.Berg in Allg. Gartenzeitung 8: 130. 1840 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Cactus polycentrus (A.Berg) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Neomammillaria polycentra (A.Berg) Y.Itô, Cactaceae: 598. 1981 syn. sec. Korotkova 2021
  • Mammillaria polycantha Lawr. in Gard. Mag. (London) 17: 313. 1841 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria haynii Ehrenb. in Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 2: 833. 1844 syn. sec. Korotkova 2021
• Mammillaria heinei Ehrenb. in Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 2: 833. 1844 syn. sec. Korotkova 2021
• Cactus heinei (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891 syn. sec. Hunt 2016
  • Mammillaria actinoplea C.Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 16: 266. 1848 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Cactus actinopleus (C.Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria hepatica C.Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 16: 267. 1848 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. hepatica (Ehrenb.) Labour., Monogr. Cact.: 35. 1853 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria polyacantha C.Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 16: 265. 1848 syn. sec. Tropicos
  • Mammillaria polyactina C.Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 16: 266. 1848 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria pomacea C.Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 16: 267. 1848 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Cactus pomaceus (C.Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria amabilis Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 326. 1849 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Cactus amabilis (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria atrosanguinea Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 270. 1849 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Cactus atrosanguineus (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891 syn. sec. Hunt 2016
  • Mammillaria aurorea A.Dietr. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 363. 1849 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. aurorea (A.Dietr.) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Neomammillaria polycentra var. aurorea (A.Dietr.) Y.Itô, Cactaceae: 598. 1981, nom. inval., syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria aurorea Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 303. 1849 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1923
• Cactus auroreus (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1923
  • Mammillaria caesia Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 251. 1849 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria eximia Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 309. 1849 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Cactus eximius (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. eximia (Ehrenb.) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima f. eximia (Ehrenb.) Schelle, Handb. Kakteenkult.: 253. 1907 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria flava C.Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 261. 1849 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria tomentosa var. flava Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 1849: 12. 1850 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1923
  • Mammillaria flava Otto & A.Dietr. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 261. 1849, nom. inval., syn. sec. Berendsohn, W. G.: Rev. 20213
  • Mammillaria herrmannii Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 303. 1849 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. herrmannii (Ehrenb.) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria isabellina Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 309. 1849 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Cactus isabellinus (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. isabellina (Ehrenb.) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima f. isabellina (Ehrenb.) Schelle, Handb. Kakteenkult.: 253. 1907 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Neomammillaria polycentra var. isabellina (Gürke) Y.Itô, Cactaceae: 599. 1981, nom. inval., syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria linkeana Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 308. 1849 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Cactus linkeanus (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891 syn. sec. Hunt 2016
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. linkeana (Ehrenb.) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria mirabilis Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 251. 1849 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Mammillaria seegeri var. mirabilis (Ehrenb.) Labour., Monogr. Cact.: 37. 1853 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Cactus mirabilis (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. mirabilis (Ehrenb.) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria pretiosa Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 250. 1849 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Cactus pretiosus (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 1891 syn. sec. Hunt 2016
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. pretiosa (Ehrenb.) Schelle, Handb. Kakteenkult.: 253. 1907 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Neomammillaria polycentra var. pretiosa (Schelle) Y.Itô, Cactaceae: 599. 1981, nom. inval., syn. sec. IPNI
  • Mammillaria pruinosa Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 261. 1849 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria seegeri var. pruinosa (Ehrenb.) Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 1849: 8. 1850 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. pruinosa (Ehrenb.) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria pulcherrima Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 249. 1849 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Cactus pulcherrimus (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. pulcherrima (Ehrenb.) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria purpurascens Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 260. 1849 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria seegeri Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 261. 1849 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. seegeri (Ehrenb.) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria umbrina Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 287. 1849 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Cactus umbrinus (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Neomammillaria umbrina (Ehrenb.) Britton & Rose, Cactaceae 4: 164. 1923 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Chilita umbrina (Ehrenb.) Orcutt in Cactography 2. 1926 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria vulpina Ehrenb. in Allg. Gartenzeitung 17: 308. 1849 syn. sec. Tropicos
• Cactus vulpinus (Ehrenb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 1891 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. vulpina (Ehrenb.) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria seegeri var. gracilispina Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 1849: 8. 1850 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria spinosissima var. brunnea Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 1849: 8. 1850 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1923
• Mammillaria spinosissima f. brunnea (Salm-Dyck) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Neomammillaria polycentra var. brunnea (Salm-Dyck) Y.Itô, Cactaceae: 598. 1981, nom. inval., syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria spinosissima var. flavida Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 1849: 8. 1850 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima f. flavida (Salm-Dyck) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Neomammillaria polycentra var. flavida (Salm-Dyck) Y.Itô, Cactaceae: 599. 1981, nom. inval., syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria spinosissima var. rubens Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 1849: 8. 1850 syn. sec. Britton & Rose 1923
• Mammillaria spinosissima f. rubens (Salm-Dyck) Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Neomammillaria polycentra var. rubens (Salm-Dyck) Y.Itô, Cactaceae: 599. 1981, nom. inval., syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria uhdeana Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 1849: 83. 1850 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria castaneoides Lem. ex Labour., Monogr. Cactaceae: 37. 1853 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. castaneoides (Lem. ex Labour.) Borg, Cacti, ed. 1: 328. 1937 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria sanguinea J.N.Haage ex Regel in Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 8: 176. 1883 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima var. sanguinea (J.N.Haage ex Regel) Brandegee in Cycl. Amer. Hort. 2: 976. 1900 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria albiseta Hort. ex Rümpler, Handb. Cacteenk., ed. 2: 354. 1885 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria poselgeriana J.N.Haage ex Rümpler, Handb. Cacteenk., ed. 2: 269. 1885 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria pretiosa var. cristata Hildm. ex Rümpler, Handb. Cacteenk., ed. 2: 273. 1885 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria spinosissima var. auricoma Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Mammillaria spinosissima f. auricoma (Gürke) Schelle, Handb. Kakteenkult.: 253. 1907 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Neomammillaria polycentra var. auricoma (Gürke) Y.Itô, Cactaceae: 598. 1981, nom. inval., syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria spinosissima var. haseloffii Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria coronaria var. beneckei Schelle, Handb. Kakteenkult.: 259. 1907 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria coronaria var. nigra Schelle, Handb. Kakteenkult.: 259. 1907 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria neocoronaria F.M.Knuth, Kaktus-ABC: 392. 1935 syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
• Neomammillaria neocoronaria (F.M.Knuth) Y.Itô, Cactaceae: 618. 1981 syn. sec. Korotkova 2021
  • Mammillaria virginis Fittkau & Kladiwa in Krainz, Kakteen 46–47: C VIIIc. 1971 syn. sec. Hernández & Gómez-Hinostrosa 2015
  • Mammillaria gasterantha Repp. in Kakteen And. Sukk. 31: 139. 1980 syn. sec. Hunt 2016
  • Mammillaria spinosissima f. typica Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905, nom. inval., syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)
  • Mammillaria spinosissima var. genuina Gürke in Blüh. Kakteen 6: t. 71. 1905, nom. inval., syn. sec. Kew WCVP (2019)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Northern America Regional: Mexico Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Lemaire, C. (1838.) Cactearum aliquot novarum 4.

Additional references

• Villaseñor, J.L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559–902. DOI: 10.1016/j.rmb.2016.06.017 Online PDF Reference page. 
• Hernández, H.M. & Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. (2015). Mapping the cacti of Mexico part II. Mammillaria Succulent Plant Research 9: 1-189.
• Preston-Mafham, R. & Preston-Mafham, K. (1992) Cacti the Illustrated Dictionary 128
• Korotkova, N., Aquino, D., Arias, S., Eggli, U., Franck, A. , Gómez-Hinostrosa, C., Guerrero, P.C., Hernández, H.M., Kohlbecker, A., Köhler, M., Luther, K., Majure, L.C., Müller, A., Metzing, D., Nyffeler, R., Sánchez, D., Schlumpberger, B. & Berendsohn, W.G. 2021. Cactaceae at Caryophyllales. org–a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. Willdenowia 51(2): 251–270. DOI: 10.3372/wi.51.51208 Reference page. 

Links

• Korotkova, N. et al. 2021. Mammillaria spinosissima in Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org. A global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Nov 22. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Mammillaria spinosissima in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Mar 24. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2021. Mammillaria spinosissima. Published online. Accessed: Mar 24 2021.
• Tropicos.org 2021. Mammillaria spinosissima. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 24 Mar 2021.
• Hassler, M. 2021. Mammillaria spinosissima. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Mar 24. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Spiny pincushion cactus

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