Mammillaria standleyi[2] 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.[3]

Mammillaria standleyi
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Genus: Mammillaria
Species:
M. standleyi
Binomial name
Mammillaria standleyi
(Britt. & Rose) Orcutt
Synonyms[1]
  • 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

Synonyms

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  • Mammillaria standleyi (Britt. & Rose) Orcutt, Cactography 8. 1926
    • Neomammillaria standleyi Britt. & Rose, Cact. 4: 97. 1923.[4]
    • Mammillaria auricantha R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 301, fig. 272. 1945.[5]
    • 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.[6]
    • Mammillaria sonorensis Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (US) 12(10): 155. 1940.[7]
    • 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.[8]
    • Neomammillaria xanthina Britton & Rose, Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 164. 1923
    • Chilita xanthina (Britton & Rose) Orcutt, Cactography 2. 1926.[9]
    • 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[10]
    • Mammillaria floresii Fritz Schwarz, Blätt. Sukkulentenk. 1: 5. 1949.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "The Plant List: a Working List of All Plant Species".
  2. ^ Orcutt, Cactography 8. 1926
  3. ^ Laferrière, Joseph E., Charles W. Weber and Edwin A. Kohlhepp. 1991a. Use and nutritional composition of some traditional Mountain Pima plant foods. Journal of Ethnobiology 11(1):93-114.
  4. ^ Britton & Rose, Cact. 4: 97. 1923
  5. ^ R.T. Craig. 1945. Mammillaria Handbook. Abbey Garden Press.
  6. ^ Lindsay, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 303. 1942.
  7. ^ Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (US) 12(10): 155. 1940.
  8. ^ Boed., Mammillarien-Vergleichs-Schluessel 47. 1933.
  9. ^ Orcutt, Cactography 2. 1926.
  10. ^ Laferriere, J. Mammillaria Soc. 38(2): 21, fig. 1998
  11. ^ Fritz Schwarz, Blätt. Sukkulentenk. 1: 5. 1949.