Taxonomic account

Mammillaria scrippsiana

Mammillaria scrippsiana (Britton & Rose) Orcutt

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]

Mammillaria ortegae (Britton & Rose) Orcutt
Mammillaria pseudoscrippsiana Backeb.
Mammillaria scrippsiana subsp. schumacheri Linzen
Mammillaria scrippsiana var. armeria Repp.
Mammillaria scrippsiana var. autlanensis R.T.Craig & E.Y.Dawson
Mammillaria scrippsiana var. pseudoscrippsiana (Backeb.) Repp.
Mammillaria scrippsiana var. rooksbyana Backeb.
Neomammillaria ortegae Britton & Rose
Neomammillaria scrippsiana 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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