Mammillaria compressaDC.

WFO wfo-0001287024 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Mammillaria compressa, photographed by Ulises Emmanuel Martínez Burgos
fig. a Ulises Emmanuel Martínez Burgos, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-07 / obs. 195763608
Mammillaria compressa, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. b Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43971534
Mammillaria compressa, photographed by Alan Valdés
fig. c Alan Valdés, CC0 1.0 / obs. 45910869
Mammillaria compressa, photographed by Alejandro Gómez Maya
fig. d Alejandro Gómez Maya, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12749028
Mammillaria compressa, photographed by Jose Antonio Aranda Pineda
fig. e Jose Antonio Aranda Pineda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10638683
Mammillaria compressa, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. f Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55348011
Mammillaria compressa, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. g Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43971593
Mammillaria compressa, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. h Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25867783

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Mammillaria compressa is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest Mexico CentralMexico NortheastMexico Southwest
Native distribution of Mammillaria compressa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 47 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cactus cirrhifer (Mart.) Kuntze
  • Cactus compressus (DC.) Kuntze
  • Cactus conopseus (Scheidw.) Kuntze
  • Cactus longisetus (Muehlenpf.) Kuntze
  • Cactus squarrosus (Meinsch.) Kuntze
  • Cactus subangularis (DC.) Kuntze
  • Cactus triacanthus (DC.) Kuntze
  • Mammillaria angularis Link & Otto
  • Mammillaria angularis Link & Otto ex Pfeiff.
  • Mammillaria angularis f. compressa (DC.) Schelle
  • Mammillaria angularis f. fulvispina (K.Schum.) Schelle
  • Mammillaria angularis f. longiseta (Muehlenpf.) Schelle
  • Mammillaria angularis f. triacantha (DC.) Schelle
  • Mammillaria angularis var. compressa K.Schum.
  • Mammillaria angularis var. fulvescens Salm-Dyck
  • Mammillaria angularis var. fulvispina K.Schum.
  • Mammillaria angularis var. longiseta (Muehlenpf.) Salm-Dyck ex K.Schum.
  • Mammillaria angularis var. triacantha (DC.) Salm-Dyck
  • Mammillaria bernalensis Repp.
  • Mammillaria centralifera Repp.
  • Mammillaria cirrhifera Mart.
  • Mammillaria cirrhifera var. angulosior Lem.
  • Mammillaria cirrhifera var. longiseta (Muehlenpf.) Salm-Dyck
  • Mammillaria cirrifera Salm-Dyck

and 23 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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