Mammillaria standleyi

Masmmillaria standleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
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

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]


Synonyms

References

  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.
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