Mammillaria standleyi

Mammillaria standleyi is a species of the family Cactaceae native to the Sierra Madre Occidental of Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Sonora. It has red-purple flowers surrounded by cottony pubescence. Fruits are red and edible, tasting like apples, although too small to be of much food value to humans.

Synonyms

Mammillaria standleyi Orcutt, Cactography 8. 1926

* Neomammillaria standleyi Britt. & Rose, Cact. 4: 97. 1923.
* Mammillaria auricantha R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 301, fig. 272. 1945.
* Mammillaria auritricha R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 302, fig. 273. 1945
* Mammillaria laneusumma R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 310, fig. 282. 1945
* Mammillaria mayensis R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 116, fig. 97. 1945
* Mammillaria montensis R.T. Craig, Mammill. Handbook 311, fig. 284. 1945.
* Mammillaria craigii G.E. Linds., Cact. Succ. J. 303. 1942.
* Mammillaria sonorensis Craig, Cact. Succ. J. 12: 155. 1940.
* Mammillaria sonorensis var brevispina Craig, Cact. Succ. J. 12: 156, fig 1940
* Mammillaria sonorensis var gentryi Craig, Cact. Succ. J. 12: 156, fig 1940
* Mammillaria sonorensis var hiltonii Craig, Cact. Succ. J. 12: 156, fig 1940
* Mammillaria sonorensis var longispina Craig, Cact. Succ. J. 12: 156, fig 1940
* Mammillaria sonorensis var maccartyi Craig, Cact. Succ. J. 12: 156, fig 1940
* Mammillaria tesopacensis Craig, Mammill. Handbook 104, fig. 86. 1945
* Mammillaria xanthina Boed., Mammillarien-Vergleichs-Schluessel 47. 1933.
* Neomammillaria xanthina Britton & Rose, Cactaceae 4: 164. 1923
* Chilita xanthina Orcutt, Cactography 2. 1926.
* Mammillaria bellisiana Craig, Mammill. Handb. 304
* Mammillaria movensis Craig, Mammill. Handb. 312, fig. 285 1945
* Mammillaria tinuvieliae Laferr., J. Mammillaria Soc. 38: 21, fig. 1998
* Mammillaria floresii Fritz Schwarz, Blätt. Sukkulentenk. 1: 5. 1949.