Mammillaria elegans

Mammillaria elegans is a species of cacti in the tribe Cacteae. It is native to Mexico. Mammillaria elegans A.P. de Candolle 1828. is a 'nomen confusum' (confused name) also applied to Mammillaria haageana subsp. elegans and refers both to Mammillaria geminispina with latex in the stem (subgenus Mammillaria section Hydrochylus series supertextae ) and to Mammillaria haageana, without latex in the stem (subgenus Mammillaria, section Galactophylous, series Leucocephale) Habit: Solitary, seldom branching cactus.

Mammillaria elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Subfamily: Cactoideae
Genus: Mammillaria
Species:
M. elegans
Binomial name
Mammillaria elegans
DC., 1828[1]
Synonyms
  • Cactus elegans (DC.) Kuntze, 1891[2]
  • Neomammillaria elegans (DC.) Britton & Rose

Names brought to synonymy:

  • Mammillaria elegans var. supertexta (Mart.) Schelle, 1907[3] or Mammillaria elegans var. lanata (Britton & Rose) B.Hofmann, 1986,[4] synonyms for Mammillaria supertexta

References
  1. Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, volume 17, page 11, 1828
  2. Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 260, 1891
  3. Schelle, Handb. Kakteenkult. 261, 1907
  4. B.Hofmann, Inform.-Brief ZAG Mammillaria 1985, page 25, 1986


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