Native records: 3 botanical areas
Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Gulf
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Distribution is shown as WGSRPD Level 3 areas. It does not imply the species occurs throughout an entire area.
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A succulent subshrub of seasonally dry tropical climates. Native to Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account is not yet available.
Distribution areas
Guatemala
- GuatemalaNative
Honduras
- HondurasNative
Mexico
- Mexico GulfNative
Climate of the native range
The Köppen climate classes found in the areas this plant is recorded as native to. It does not mean an entire area has that climate.
- Aw Tropical, savannah
- Am Tropical, monsoon
- Af Tropical, rainforest
- Cwb Temperate, dry winter, warm summer
The same climate occurs in 124 areas worldwide, 121 of which have no record of this plant. See them on the map
A matching climate does not mean the plant can grow there. Range limits are also set by things other than climate — dispersal history, soils, competition. Source: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0 (observed period 1991–2020).
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Mammillaria
Other species in Mammillaria
Sources
World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
Guatemala · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
Open sourceWorld Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
Honduras · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
Open sourceWorld Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
Mexico · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
Open source
Image information
Photograph of Mammillaria eriacantha
Dr. L. Pfeiffer & Fr. Otto Peter A. Mansfeld for the filtred image. · Public domain · File page