Mammillaria elegans

Mammillaria elegans
Mammillaria elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Cacteae
Subtribe: Cactinae
Genus: Mammillaria
Species: M. elegans
Binomial name
Mammillaria elegans
DC., 1828[1]
Synonyms
  • Cactus elegans (DC.) Kuntze, 1891[2]
  • Neomammillaria elegans (DC.) Britton & Rose

Mammillaria elegans is a species of cacti in the subtribe Cactinae. It is native to Mexico.

, Names brought to synonymy:

  • Mammillaria elegans var. supertexta (Mart.) Schelle, 1907[3] or Mammillaria elegans var. lanata (Britton & Rose) B.Hofmann, 1986,[4] synonyms for Mammillaria supertexta

References

  1. ↑ Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, volume 17, page 11, 1828
  2. ↑ Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260, 1891
  3. ↑ Schelle, Handb. Kakteenkult. 261, 1907
  4. ↑ B.Hofmann, Inform.-Brief ZAG Mammillaria 1985, page 25, 1986


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