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Internal ID UUID64405a931c4a5479506038
Scientific name Mammillaria nivosa
Authority Link ex Pfeiff.
First published in Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 11. 1837.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Mammillaria tortolensis Pfeiff. Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 11. 1837.
Mammillaria straminea Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ.: 71. 1819.
Cactus flavescens DC. Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp.: 83. 1813.
Cactus nivosus (Link ex Pfeiff.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 259. 1891.
Cactus stramineus Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2: 494. 1825.
Coryphantha nivosa (Link ex Pfeiff.) Britton in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 2: 45. 1915.
Neomammillaria nivosa (Link ex Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose Cactaceae 4: 71–72, f. 66. 1923.
Mammillaria flavescens (DC.) DC. Prodr. 3: 459. 1828.
Mammillaria flavescens var. nivosa (Link ex Pfeiff.) Backeb. Cactaceae 5: 3169. 1961.
Mammillaria simplex var. flavescens (DC.) K.Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 573. 1898.

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Language Common/alternative name
English woolly nipple cactus
German mammillaria flavescens
German mammillaria flavescens var. nivosa
Chinese 金银司

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001287101
USDA Plants MANI3
Tropicos 5100371
INPN 630089
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:134896-1
The Plant List tro-5100371
Open Tree Of Life 3943585
IUCN Red List 152238
IPNI 134896-1
iNaturalist 440161
GBIF 5384011
Freebase /m/0t54485
EOL 486952
Wikipedia Mammillaria_nivosa

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