Mammillaria karwinskianaMart.

WFO wfo-0001288830 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 karwinskiana, photographed by Matteo Cassella
fig. a Matteo Cassella, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-03-19 / obs. 64137282
Mammillaria karwinskiana, photographed by Matteo Cassella
fig. b Matteo Cassella, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64134930
Mammillaria karwinskiana, photographed by Olvin Wilfredo Oyuela
fig. c Olvin Wilfredo Oyuela, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 187573924
Mammillaria karwinskiana, photographed by Olvin Wilfredo Oyuela
fig. d Olvin Wilfredo Oyuela, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172015946
Mammillaria karwinskiana, photographed by Olvin Wilfredo Oyuela
fig. e Olvin Wilfredo Oyuela, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 187574027
Mammillaria karwinskiana, photographed by Matteo Cassella
fig. f Matteo Cassella, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64137258

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Mammillaria karwinskiana is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua Mexico CentralMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestGuatemalaHondurasNicaragua
Native distribution of Mammillaria karwinskiana, 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 Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Guatemala GUA SOUTHERN AMERICA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC

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 87 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 bergii Miq.
  • Cactus fischeri (Pfeiff.) Kuntze
  • Cactus geminatus (Scheidw.) Kuntze
  • Cactus karwinskianus (Mart.) Kuntze
  • Cactus multisectus (Scheidw.) Kuntze
  • Cactus praelii (Muehlenpf.) Kuntze
  • Cactus pyrrhocephalus (Scheidw.) Kuntze
  • Cactus subpolyedrus (Salm-Dyck) Kuntze
  • Cactus virens (Scheidw.) Kuntze
  • Cactus viridis (Salm-Dyck) Kuntze
  • Cactus voburnensis (Scheer) Kuntze
  • Cactus woburnensis (Scheer) Kuntze
  • Corbichonia decumbens C.F.Först. ex Salm-Dyck
  • Mammillaria beiselii Diers
  • Mammillaria closiana Roum.
  • Mammillaria collinsii (Britton & Rose) Orcutt
  • Mammillaria confusa Orcutt
  • Mammillaria confusa var. centrispina R.T.Craig
  • Mammillaria confusa var. conzattii (Britton & Rose) R.T.Craig
  • Mammillaria confusa var. robustispina R.T.Craig
  • Mammillaria conzattii Orcutt
  • Mammillaria ebenacantha Shurly
  • Mammillaria fischeri Pfeiff.
  • Mammillaria fulvolanata Hildm.

and 63 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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