Taxonomic account

Mammillaria microhelia

Mammillaria microhelia Werderm.

Name accepted in Plants of the World Online. [2-WWW]

SpeciesAccount scope · nomenclature

Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Mammillaria
Ranga: Species
Genus list verification: 11 October 2026 [2-WWW]

Names in the literature

Synonyms and spelling variants linked to the accepted name in WCVP 16, including updates to the genus list. [27-WWW] [2-WWW]

Krainzia microhelia (Werderm.) Doweld
Leptocladia microhelia (Werderm.) Buxb.
Leptocladia microheliopsis (Werderm.) Buxb.
Leptocladodia microhelia (Werderm.) Buxb.
Leptocladodia microhelia f. microheliopsis (Werderm.) Krainz
Leptocladodia microheliopsis (Werderm.) Buxb.
Mammillaria droegeana (K.Schum.) Borg
Mammillaria microhelia var. microheliopsis (Werderm.) Backeb.
Mammillaria microheliopsis Werderm.
Mammillaria rhodantha f. droegeana (K.Schum.) Schelle
Mammillaria rhodantha var. droegeana K.Schum.

Nomenclatural basis

The genus's species list was checked in POWO on 11 October 2026. Authorship and links between older names were compared with WCVP 16, a snapshot from 4 June 2026. [27-WWW] [2-WWW] [2-WWW]

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