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December 2023

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Mammillaria nivosa Link ex Pfeiff.

This species name was first published in Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 11. 1837.

At the time of this classification snapshot, this species name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-0001287101.

Synonyms of Mammillaria nivosa Link ex Pfeiff.

Name Author Protologue Nomenclator WFO link
Mammillaria tortolensis Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 11. 1837. wfo-0000369494
Mammillaria straminea Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ.: 71. 1819. wfo-0000369525
Cactus flavescens DC. Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp.: 83. 1813. wfo-0000577837
Cactus nivosus (Link ex Pfeiff.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 259. 1891. wfo-0000578037
Cactus stramineus Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2: 494. 1825. wfo-0000578255
Coryphantha nivosa (Link ex Pfeiff.) Britton in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 2: 45. 1915. wfo-0000623327
Neomammillaria nivosa (Link ex Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose Cactaceae 4: 71–72, f. 66. 1923. wfo-0001257698
Mammillaria flavescens (DC.) DC. Prodr. 3: 459. 1828. wfo-0001258696
Mammillaria flavescens var. nivosa (Link ex Pfeiff.) Backeb. Cactaceae 5: 3169. 1961. wfo-0001258698
Mammillaria simplex var. flavescens (DC.) K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 573. 1897–1899. wfo-0001288790