Mammillaria crinitaDC.

WFO wfo-0001288745 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Mammillaria crinita, photographed by Alejandro Gómez Maya
fig. a Alejandro Gómez Maya, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-24 / obs. 203372427
Mammillaria crinita, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. b José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179970286
Mammillaria crinita, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. c José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140315730
Mammillaria crinita, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. d Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90837591
Mammillaria crinita, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. e José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84268145
Mammillaria crinita, photographed by Alejandro Gómez Maya
fig. f Alejandro Gómez Maya, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203372523
Mammillaria crinita, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. g José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140315942
Mammillaria crinita, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. h Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90836609

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Mammillaria crinita is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico Southwest
Native distribution of Mammillaria crinita, 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 Gulf MXG
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 61 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 crinitus (DC.) Kuntze
  • Cactus schelhasii (Pfeiff.) Kuntze
  • Chilita aurihamata (Boed.) Buxb.
  • Chilita boedekeriana Orcutt
  • Chilita criniformis (DC.) Buxb.
  • Chilita crinita (DC.) Buxb.
  • Chilita erectohamata (Boed.) Buxb.
  • Chilita pubispina (Boed.) Buxb.
  • Chilita pygmaea (Britton & Rose) Buxb.
  • Chilita schelhasii (Pfeiff.) Orcutt
  • Chilita seideliana (Quehl) Orcutt
  • Chilita trichacantha (K.Schum.) Buxb.
  • Chilita wildii (A.Dietr.) Orcutt
  • Ebnerella aurihamata (Boed.) Buxb.
  • Ebnerella boedekeriana (Quehl) Buxb.
  • Ebnerella crinita (DC.) Buxb.
  • Ebnerella erectohamata (Boed.) Buxb.
  • Ebnerella pubispina (Boed.) Buxb.
  • Ebnerella pygmaea (Britton & Rose) Buxb.
  • Ebnerella schelhasii (Pfeiff.) Buxb.
  • Ebnerella seideliana (Quehl) Buxb.
  • Ebnerella trichacantha (K.Schum.) Buxb.
  • Ebnerella wildii (A.Dietr.) Buxb.
  • Krainzia crinita (DC.) Doweld

and 37 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.