Cactus mammillaris Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 466. 1753.

"Habitat in Americae calidioris rupibus." RCN: 3567.

Lectotype (Wijnands, Mammillaria Index: 51. 1980): [icon] " Ficoides s. Melocactos mamillaris glabra, sulcis carens, fructum suum undiqe fundens " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 29, f. 1. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 148. 1696.

Generitype of Cactus Linnaeus, nom. rej.

Current name: Mammillaria mammillaris (L.) H. Karst. ( Cactaceae).

Note: Cactus Linnaeus, nom. rej., in favour of Mammillaria Haw.

For a detailed discussion of this binomial, see Hunt (in Bradleya 3: 59. 1985). Mottram (in Brit. Cactus Succ. J. 22: 87. 2004) reproduces the Commelin (f. 1; see also p. 121 in this book), Plukenet (f. 2) and Hermann (f. 4) illustrations cited by Linnaeus.