Mammillaria standleyi

Mammillaria 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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