Mammillaria

Genus: Mammillaria

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Core Eudicots > Order: Caryophyllales > Familty: Cactaceae

Species total about 197 and are native from the southwestern USA through to Colombia and Venezuela as well as the Caribbean, with the highest species diversity in Mexico. Twenty-four species have been recorded as being cultivated in southern Africa.

Species cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Mammillaria armillata Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria beneckei Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria bocasana Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria carnea Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria compressa Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria craigii Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria elongata Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria fraileana Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria gracilis Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria hamata Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria heyderi Native to southwestern USA and Mexico.
Mammillaria longimamma Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria magnimamma Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria mainiae Native to southwestern USA and Mexico.
Mammillaria matudae Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria mendeliana Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria nunezii Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria pectinifera Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria perbella Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria prolifera (Texas nipple cactus) Native to southern USA and the Caribbean.
Mammillaria sheldonii Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria sphaerica Native to Texas and Mexico.
Mammillaria spinosissima Native to Mexico.
Mammillaria voburnensis Native to Mexico and Guatemala.

Publications

Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.

Species cultivated in southern Africa

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