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Mammillaria sinistrohamata, Zacatecas, MX (c) Ulises Pinedo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2022-05-30

Mammillaria sinistrohamata Boed.

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 8 photographs Cactus or succulent
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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
Boed.
Native to
Mexico Northeast
Wild records
3 in range· 1 open

Also known as Chilita sinistrohamata (Boed.) Buxb.; Ebnerella sinistrohamata (Boed.) Buxb.; Escobariopsis sinistrohamata (Boed.) Doweld; Mammillaria sinistrohamata (Boed.) Buxb.

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 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds 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 marker23.586, -103.28 · in the densest population, 3 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 155 km away. 1 record outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 2 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 3 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Ulises Pinedo, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); Ulises Pinedo, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (4).

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 sinistrohamata, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Occurrence Download
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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GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Mammillaria sinistrohamata: Fitz Maurice, B & Fitz Maurice, W.A.
IUCN (2009) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Mammillaria sinistrohamata: Fitz Maurice, B & Fitz Maurice, W.A.
IUCN (2009) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Other Mammillaria 132 in the reference

Mammillaria albicoma Cactaceae Mammillaria albiflora Cactaceae Mammillaria albilanata Cactaceae
Mammillaria anniana Bernal Cactus Mammillaria arreolae Cactaceae Mammillaria aureilanata Cactaceae
Mammillaria backebergiana Cactaceae Mammillaria baumii Cactaceae
Mammillaria bertholdii Cactaceae Mammillaria bocasana Powderpuff Cactus Mammillaria bocensis Cactaceae
Mammillaria boelderliana Cactaceae all 133 ›

History & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataiNaturalist
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 nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped
inat.taxon not asked
inat.photos.wild answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped
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.