Mammillaria standleyi is a species of the family Cactaceae native to the Sierra Madre Occidental of Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Sonora. It has red-purple flowers surrounded by cottony pubescence. Fruits are red and edible, tasting like apples, although too small to be of much food value to humans.
Synonyms
- Mammillaria standleyi (Britt. & Rose) Orcutt, Cactography 8. 1926
- Neomammillaria standleyi Britt. & Rose, Cact. 4: 97. 1923.
- Mammillaria auricantha R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 301, fig. 272. 1945.
- Mammillaria auritricha R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 302, fig. 273. 1945
- Mammillaria laneusumma R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 310, fig. 282. 1945
- Mammillaria mayensis R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 116, fig. 97. 1945
- Mammillaria montensis R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 311, fig. 284. 1945.
- Mammillaria craigii G.E. Linds., Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 303. 1942.
- Mammillaria sonorensis Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (US) 12(10): 155. 1940.
- Mammillaria sonorensis var brevispina Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 12: 156, fig 1940
- Mammillaria sonorensis var gentryi Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 12: 156, fig 1940
- Mammillaria sonorensis var hiltonii Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 12: 156, fig 1940
- Mammillaria sonorensis var longispina Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 12: 156, fig 1940
- Mammillaria sonorensis var maccartyi Craig, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 12: 156, fig 1940
- Mammillaria tesopacensis Craig, Mammill. Handbook 104, fig. 86. 1945
- Mammillaria xanthina (Britton & Rose) Boed., Mammillarien-Vergleichs-Schluessel 47. 1933.
- Neomammillaria xanthina Britton & Rose, Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 164. 1923
- Chilita xanthina (Britton & Rose) Orcutt, Cactography 2. 1926.
- Mammillaria bellisiana Craig, Mammill. Handb. 304 (1945)
- Mammillaria movensis Craig, Mammill. Handb. 312, fig. 285 1945
- Mammillaria tinuvieliae Laferr., J. Mammillaria Soc. 38(2): 21, fig. 1998
- Mammillaria floresii Fritz Schwarz, Blätt. Sukkulentenk. 1: 5. 1949.
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