Family:
Cactaceae Juss.
Genus:
Mammillaria Haw.

Mammillaria spinosissima Lem.

This species is accepted, and its native range is Mexico (Durango to Morelos and Guerrero).

Native to:

Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest

Mammillaria spinosissima Lem. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
8634.000 No
Hunt [8105], Mexico K000062989 No
K000250790 No
Reppenhagen [934] 64706.000 No
Hunt [8847], Mexico K000062996 No

First published in Cact. Aliq. Nov.: 4 (1838)

Accepted by

  • Hernández, H.M. & Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. (2015). Mapping the cacti of Mexico part II. Mammillaria. Succulent Plant Research 9: 1-189.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Hernández, H.M. & Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. (2015). Mapping the cacti of Mexico part II. Mammillaria. Succulent Plant Research 9: 1-189.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

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