Mammillaria elegans

Mammillaria elegans

Mammillaria elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Cactaceae
Subfamily:	Cactoideae
Tribe:	Cacteae
Subtribe:	Cactinae
Genus:	Mammillaria
Species:	M. elegans
Binomial name
*Mammillaria elegans* DC., 1828^[1]
Synonyms
Cactus elegans (DC.) Kuntze, 1891^[2] Neomammillaria elegans (DC.) Britton & Rose

Mammillaria elegans is a species of cacti in the subtribe Cactinae. It is native to Mexico.

, Names brought to synonymy:

Mammillaria elegans var. supertexta (Mart.) Schelle, 1907^[3] or Mammillaria elegans var. lanata (Britton & Rose) B.Hofmann, 1986,^[4] synonyms for Mammillaria supertexta

References

↑ Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, volume 17, page 11, 1828
↑ Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260, 1891
↑ Schelle, Handb. Kakteenkult. 261, 1907
↑ B.Hofmann, Inform.-Brief ZAG Mammillaria 1985, page 25, 1986

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