Taxonomic account

Mammillaria sempervivi

Mammillaria sempervivi DC.

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 sempervivi (DC.) Kuntze
Cactus tetracentrus (Otto ex C.F.Först.) Kuntze
Mammillaria bachmannii Boed.
Mammillaria caput-medusae Link & Otto ex Pfeiff.
Mammillaria caput-medusae var. centrispina Salm-Dyck
Mammillaria caput-medusae var. crassior Salm-Dyck
Mammillaria caput-medusae var. tetracantha Salm-Dyck
Mammillaria diacantha Lem.
Mammillaria formosa subsp. pseudocrucigera (R.T.Craig) D.R.Hunt
Mammillaria pseudocrucigera R.T.Craig
Mammillaria sempervivi f. tetracantha (DC.) Schelle
Mammillaria sempervivi var. caput-medusae (Link & Otto ex Pfeiff.) Backeb.
Mammillaria sempervivi var. laeteviridis Salm-Dyck
Mammillaria sempervivi var. tetracantha DC.
Mammillaria staurotypa C.F.Först.
Mammillaria tetracentra Otto ex C.F.Först.
Neomammillaria sempervivi (DC.) Britton & Rose

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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