Mammillaria parkinsoniiEhrenb.

Owl's eye cactusowl-eye cactus

WFO wfo-0001288898 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Mammillaria parkinsonii, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. a Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-02 / obs. 189466698
Mammillaria parkinsonii, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. b Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63887079
Mammillaria parkinsonii, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. c Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63798348
Mammillaria parkinsonii, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. d Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62610587
Mammillaria parkinsonii, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. e Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30422012
Mammillaria parkinsonii, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. f Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30785795
Mammillaria parkinsonii, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. g Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13994494
Mammillaria parkinsonii, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. h Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13994556

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Mammillaria parkinsonii is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast Mexico GulfMexico Northeast
Native distribution of Mammillaria parkinsonii, 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 Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE

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 12 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 parkinsonii (Ehrenb.) Kuntze
  • Mammillaria auriareolis Tiegel
  • Mammillaria dietrichiae Tiegel
  • Mammillaria neocrucigera Backeb.
  • Mammillaria parkinsonii var. brevispina R.T.Craig
  • Mammillaria parkinsonii var. dealbata Frič
  • Mammillaria parkinsonii var. dietrichiae (Tiegel) Backeb.
  • Mammillaria rosensis R.T.Craig
  • Mammillaria tiegeliana Backeb.
  • Neomammillaria parkinsonii (Ehrenb.) Britton & Rose
  • Neomammillaria parkinsonii var. brevispina (R.T.Craig) Y.Itô
  • Neomammillaria rosensis (R.T.Craig) Y.Itô

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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