Mammillaria

Accepted species 200 Documented here 46 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 200 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Mammillaria heyderi Muehlenpf. 268 documented
Mammillaria formosa Galeotti ex Scheidw. 172 documented
Mammillaria magnimamma Haw. 152 documented
Mammillaria pottsii Scheer ex Salm-Dyck 103 documented
Mammillaria uncinata Zucc. ex Pfeiff. 88 documented
Mammillaria lasiacantha Engelm. 47 documented
Mammillaria candida Scheidw. 40 documented
Mammillaria parkinsonii Ehrenb. 39 documented
Mammillaria scrippsiana (Britton & Rose) Orcutt 39 documented
Mammillaria albiflora (Werderm.) Backeb. 38 documented
Mammillaria senilis Lodd. ex Salm-Dyck 25 documented
Mammillaria karwinskiana Mart. 21 documented
Mammillaria gigantea Hildm. ex K.Schum. 20 documented
Mammillaria nana Backeb. 19 documented
Mammillaria sphaerica A.Dietr. 19 documented
Mammillaria beneckei Ehrenb. 16 documented
Mammillaria compressa DC. 16 documented
Mammillaria petrophila K.Brandegee 14 documented
Mammillaria densispina (J.M.Coult.) Orcutt 13 documented
Mammillaria grusonii Runge 13 documented
Mammillaria longimamma DC. 13 documented
Mammillaria mystax Mart. 12 documented
Mammillaria perbella Hildm. ex K.Schum. 12 documented
Mammillaria wagneriana Boed. 12 documented
Mammillaria brandegeei (J.M.Coult.) K.Brandegee 11 documented
Mammillaria carnea Zucc. ex Pfeiff. 11 documented
Mammillaria crinita DC. 11 documented
Mammillaria muehlenpfordtii C.F.Först. 11 documented
Mammillaria orcuttii Boed. 11 documented
Mammillaria petterssonii Hildm. 11 documented
Mammillaria zephyranthoides Scheidw. 11 documented
Mammillaria geminispina Haw. 10 documented
Mammillaria erythrosperma Boed. 9 documented
Mammillaria haageana Pfeiff. 8 documented
Mammillaria lenta K.Brandegee 8 documented
Mammillaria polyedra Mart. 8 documented
Mammillaria melanocentra Poselg. 6 documented
Mammillaria plumosa F.A.C.Weber 6 documented
Mammillaria prolifera (Mill.) Haw. 6 documented
Mammillaria hahniana Werderm. 5 documented
Mammillaria hernandezii Glass & R.A.Foster 5 documented
Mammillaria nivosa Link ex Pfeiff. 4 documented
Mammillaria peninsularis (Britton & Rose) Orcutt 4 documented
Mammillaria rhodantha Link & Otto 4 documented
Mammillaria eriacantha Link & Otto ex Pfeiff. 3 documented
Mammillaria pilispina J.A.Purpus 3 documented
Mammillaria standleyi (Britton & Rose) Orcutt 21 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria guerreronis (Bravo) Boed. 3 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria bocasana Poselg. 2 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria bombycina Quehl 2 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria discolor Haw. 2 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria elongata DC. 2 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria lloydii (Britton & Rose) Orcutt 2 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria polythele Mart. 2 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria rettigiana Boed. 2 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria sonorensis R.T.Craig 2 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria tonalensis D.R.Hunt 2 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria baumii Boed. 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria decipiens Scheidw. 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria evermanniana (Britton & Rose) Orcutt 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria flavicentra Backeb. ex Mottram 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria humboldtii Ehrenb. 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria marcosii W.A.Fitz Maur., B.Fitz Maur. & Glass 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria marksiana Krainz 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria mathildae Kraehenb. & Krainz 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria melaleuca Karw. ex Salm-Dyck 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria mercadensis Patoni 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria morganiana Tiegel 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria nunezii (Britton & Rose) Orcutt 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria pectinifera F.A.C.Weber 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria pringlei (J.M.Coult.) K.Brandegee 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria winterae Boed. 1 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria × busonii Bachel 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria × gajii Chvastek & Halda 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria aciculata Otto ex Pfeiff. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria acultzingensis Linzen, Rogoz. & F.Wolf 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria albicoma Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria albilanata Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria anniana Glass & R.A.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria ariasii U.Guzmán & D.Aquino 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria arreolae P.Carrillo & Ortiz-Brunel 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria atrorubra Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria aulacantha DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria aureilanata Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria backebergiana F.G.Buchenau 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria bertholdii Linzen 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria bocensis R.T.Craig 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria boelderliana Wohlschl. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria breviplumosa García-Mor., Ramírez-Chap., Sigala-Chav. & Iamonico 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria brownii Toumey 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria caespititia DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria carmeniae Castañeda 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria carretii Rebut ex K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria coahuilensis (Boed.) Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria columbiana Salm-Dyck 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria conspicua J.A.Purpus 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria corollaria Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria crassior Repp. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria crucigera Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria deherdtiana Farwig 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria dixanthocentron Backeb. ex Mottram 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria duoformis R.T.Craig & E.Y.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria duwei Rogoz. & P.J.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria eborina Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria eichlamii Quehl 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria euchlora Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria fellneri Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria fittkaui Glass & R.A.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria gasseriana Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria glabrata Salm-Dyck 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria glassii R.A.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria glochidiata Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria goodridgii Scheer 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria guillauminiana Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria haematactina Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria halbingeri Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria hamata Lehm. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria herrerae Werderm. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria huitzilopochtli D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria incurva Scheidw. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria irregularis DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria jaliscana (Britton & Rose) Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria johnstonii (Britton & Rose) Orcutt 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria jucunda Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria julianae Rodr.González & Linzen 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria kleinii Regel 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria klissingiana Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria knippeliana Quehl 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria kraehenbuehlii (Krainz) Krainz 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria lanigera Repp. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria laui D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria lesaunieri Rebut ex K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria leucodasys Salm-Dyck ex Scheer 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria leucodictia Link 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria linaresensis R.Wolf & F.Wolf 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria livida Fennel 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria longiflora (Britton & Rose) A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria luethyi G.S.Hinton 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria magnifica F.G.Buchenau 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria mammillaris (L.) H.Karst. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria manana W.A.Fitz Maur. & B.Fitz Maur. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria matudae Bravo 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria meissneri Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria meyranii Bravo 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria micracantha Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria microhelia Werderm. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria mieheana Tiegel 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria moelleriana Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria monochrysacantha Gonz.-Zam., D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria morentiniana Gonz.-Zam., D.Aquino, J.Mohl & Dan.Sánchez 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria mucronata Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria multihamata Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria napina J.A.Purpus 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria obliqua Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria olorina Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria oteroi Glass & R.A.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria painteri Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria pennispinosa Krainz 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria persicina Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria picta Meinsh. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria plecostigma Meinsh. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria pleiocephala Regel & Klein bis 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria pseudoperbella Quehl 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria pugionacantha C.F.Först. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria purpurea Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria rekoi (Britton & Rose) Vaupel 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria rosea Scheidw. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria roseoalba Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria rubidula C.Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria rufidula Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria san-angelensis Sánchez-Mej. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae Rodr.González 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria sartorii J.A.Purpus 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria saxatilis Scheer 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria scheinvariana R.Ortega V. & Glass 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria schiedeana Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria schwarzii Shurly 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria scoria Gonz.-Zam., D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria seidelii Tersch. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria seitziana Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria severinii Regel & Klein bis 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria sinistrohamata Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria spectabilis Muehlenpf. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria sphacelata Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria spinaurea Salm-Dyck 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria spinosissima Lem. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria subulifera Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria supertexta Mart. ex Pfeiff. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria surculosa Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria tayloriorum Glass & R.A.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria tecta Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria varieaculeata F.G.Buchenau 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria vetula Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria wegeneri Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria weingartiana Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria wiesingeri Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria xaltianguensis Sánchez-Mej. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria zeilmanniana Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria zepnickii Ehrenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mammillaria zublerae Repp. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.