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Mammillaria mathildae Kraehenb. & Krainz

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 51 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Mammillaria mathildae is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is endemic to Querétaro, Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts. It is of IUCN Red List Vulnerable status and threatened by habitat loss.

Text from Wikipedia, “Mammillaria mathildae”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Mammillaria

Mammillaria is one of the largest genera in the cactus family (Cactaceae), with currently about 170 to 190 accepted species and around 99 subspecies. Most of the mammillarias are native to Mexico, while some come from the Southwestern United States, the Caribbean, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela. The common name "pincushion cactus" refers to this genus and the closely related Escobaria.

Text from Wikipedia, “Mammillaria”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
Kraehenb. & Krainz
Native to
Mexico Northeast
Wild records
146 in range· 12 open

Also known as Escobariopsis fittkaui subsp. mathildae (Kraehenb. & Krainz) Doweld; Mammillaria fittkaui subsp. mathildae (Kraehenb. & Krainz) Lüthy.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Mammillaria, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMexico Northeast
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker20.601, -100.339 · in the densest population, 145 records (99% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 146 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 12 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 77 km away. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 143 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 146 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (8).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Mammillaria mathildae, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Stimulation of the germination and growth of different plant species using an electric field treatment with IrO2‐Ta2O5|Ti electrodes
Gustavo Acosta‐Santoyo, Rosa Alhelí Herrada, Stefan de Folter, Erika Bustos (2017) · Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology
Micropropagation and Reintroduction of the Endemic Mammillaria mathildae (Cactaceae) to Its Natural Habitat
Oscar Ricardo García-Rubio, Guadalupe Malda-Barrera (2010) · HortScience
Análisis Florístico de la Cañada, Querétaro, México
José Alejandro Cabrera-Luna, Maricela Gómez-Sánchez (2005) · Botanical Sciences
Informe de una nueva localidad de Mammillaria mathildae y una nueva propuesta para modificar su categoría legal de conservación
María Magdalena Hernández Martínez, Emiliano Sánchez Martínez (2002) · Cactaceas y suculentas mexicanas
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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Other Mammillaria 132 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate nothing to report
wikidata answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
wikipedia answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped
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inat.photos.cultivated nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
commons nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
gbif.media answered
openalex answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped

Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.