Taxonomic account

Mammillaria sphaerica

Mammillaria sphaerica A.Dietr.

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]

Cactus sphaericus (A.Dietr.) Kuntze
Dolichothele sphaerica (A.Dietr.) Britton & Rose
Mammillaria longimamma var. sphaerica (A.Dietr.) Engelm. ex K.Brandegee
Mammillaria paulii Linzen
Mammillaria sphaerica subsp. paulii (Linzen) Lodé
Neomammillaria sphaerica (A.Dietr.) Fosberg

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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