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The genus Mammillaria is in the family Cactaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Mammillaria

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Mammillaria albicans (Britton & Rose) A. Berger	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria albicoma Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria albiflora Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria albilanata Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria amajacensis Brachet & M. Lacoste	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria anniana Glass & R.C. Foster	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria armillata K. Brandegee	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria aureilanata Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria aurihamata Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria backebergiana F.G. Buchenau	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria barbata Engelm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria baumii Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria beneckei Ehrenb.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria berkiana A.B. Lau	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria blossfeldiana Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria bocasana Poselger	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria bocensis Craig	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria boelderliana Wohlschl.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria bombycina Quehl	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria boolii G.E. Linds.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria brandegeei (J.M. Coult.) K. Brandegee	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria capensis (H.E. Gates) Craig	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria carmenae Castañeda	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria carnea Zucc. ex Pfeiff.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria carretii Rebut ex K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria cerralboa (Britton & Rose) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria chionocephala J.A. Purpus	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria coahuilensis (Boed.) Moran	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria columbiana Salm-Dyck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Mammillaria compressa DC.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria crinita DC.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria crucigera Mart.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria decipiens Scheidw.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria deherdtiana Farwig	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria densispina (J.M. Coult.) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria dioica K. Brandegee	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria discolor Haw.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria dixanthocentron Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria duoformis R.T. Craig & E.Y. Dawson	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria duwei Rogoz. & Appenz.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria elongata DC.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria eriacantha Link & Otto ex Pfeiff.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria erythrosperma Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria evermanniana (Britton & Rose) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria fittkaui Glass & R.C. Foster	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria flavescens (DC.) Pfeiff.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria formosa Galeotti ex Scheidw.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria gaumeri (Britton & Rose) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria geminispina Haw.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria gigantea Hildm. ex K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria glassii R.A. Foster	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria glochidiata Mart.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Mammillaria goodridgii Scheer	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria gracilis Pfeiff.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria grahamii Engelm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria grusonii Runge	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria guelzowiana Werderm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria guerreronis (Bravo) Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria guillauminiana Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Mammillaria haageana Pfeiff.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria hahniana Werderm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria hamata Lehm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria heidiae Krainz	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria hernandezii Glass & R.C. Foster	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria herrerae Werderm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria hertrichiana R.T. Craig	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria heyderi Muehlenpf.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria huitzilopochtli D.R. Hunt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria humboldtii Ehrenb.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria hutchisoniana (H.E. Gates) Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria insularis H.E. Gates	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria jaliscana (Britton & Rose) Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria johnstonii (Britton & Rose) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria karwinskiana Mart.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria klissingiana Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria knippeliana Quehl	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria kraehenbuehlii (Krainz) Krainz	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria lanata Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria lasiacantha Engelm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria laui D.R. Hunt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria lenta K. Brandegee	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria lindsayi R.T. Craig	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria lloydii (Britton & Rose) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria longicoma (Britton & Rose) A. Berger	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria longiflora (Britton & Rose) A. Berger	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria longimamma DC.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria luethyi G.S. Hinton	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria magallanii Schmoll ex R.T. Craig	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria magnifica F.G. Buchenau	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria magnimamma Haw.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria mainiae K. Brandegee	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria mammillaris (L.) H.Karst.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Mammillaria marksiana Krainz	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria mathildae Kraehenb. & Krainz	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria matudae Bravo	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria mazatlanensis K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria melaleuca Karw. ex Salm-Dyck	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria melanocentra Poselger	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria mercadensis Patoni	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria meyranii Bravo	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria microhelia Werderm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria miegiana W. Earle	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria mieheana Tiegel	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria moelleriana Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria multidigitata W.T. Marshall ex Linds.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria multihamata Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria mystax Mart.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria nana Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria napina J.A. Purpus	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria neopalmeri R.T. Craig	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria nunezii (Britton & Rose) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria orcuttii Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria ortegae (Britton & Rose) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria oteroi Glass & R. Foster	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria pachycylindrica Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria parkinsonii Ehrenb.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria pectinifera F.A.C. Weber	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria peninsularis (Britton & Rose) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria pennispinosa Krainz	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria perbella Hildm. ex K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria perezdelarosae Bravo & Scheinvar	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria petrophila K. Brandegee	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria petterssonii Hildm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria picta Meinsh.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria pilispina J.A. Purpus	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria plumosa F.A.C. Weber	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria polyedra Mart.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria polythele Mart.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria pottsii Scheer ex Salm-Dyck	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria prolifera (Mill.) Haw.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria pseudocrucigera R.T. Craig	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria rekoi Vaupel	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria rettigiana Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria rhodantha Link & Otto	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria roseoalba Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria saboae Glass	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae R. Gonzalez G.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria sartorii J.A.Purpus	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Mammillaria schiedeana Ehrenb. ex Schltdl.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria schumannii Hildm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria schwarzii Shurly	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria scrippsiana (Britton & Rose) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria sempervivi DC.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria senilis Lodd. ex Salm-Dyck	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria sheldonii (Britton & Rose) Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria sinistrohamata Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria solisioides Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria sphacelata Mart.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria sphaerica A. Dietr.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria spinosissima Lem.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria standleyi (Britton & Rose) Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria stella-de-tacubaya Heese	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria supertexta Mart. ex Pfeiff.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria surculosa Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria tayloriorum Glass & R.A. Foster	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria tepexicensis J. Meyrán	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria tetrancistra Engelm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria theresae Cutak	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria thornberi Orcutt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria tonalensis D.R. Hunt	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria uncinata Zucc. ex Pfeiff.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria varieaculeata Buchenau	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria verhaertiana Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria vetula Mart.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria viescensis Rogoz. & Appenz.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria viridiflora (Britton & Rose) Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria voburnensis Scheer	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria wagneriana Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria weingartiana Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria wiesingeri Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria winterae Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria wrightii Engelm.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria xaltianguensis Sánchez-Mej.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria zeilmanniana Boed.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria zephyranthoides Scheidw.	Accepted		TRO
Mammillaria zeyeriana Haage ex K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 1,095 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Mammillaria. Of these 176 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 263 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Mammillaria. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 1,095 species names for the genus Mammillaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	176	16.1%
◕	Synonym	497	45.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	422	38.5%

All names

The status of the 1,358 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Mammillaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	302	22.2%
◕	Synonym	626	46.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	430	31.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 1,095 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Mammillaria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	171	313	0	0	484	44.2%
	Low confidence	5	184	0	422	611	55.8%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Mammillaria, are as follows: