Mammillaria Stackhouse, 1809, nom. rejic.
Type species: a type species (generitype) appears not to have been designated.
Publication details: Stackhouse, 1809: 55, 74
Original publication: Stackhouse, J. (1809). Tentamen marino-cryptogamicum, ordinem novum; in genera et species distributum, in Classe XXIVta Linnaei sistens. Mémoires de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 2: [50]-97.
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Taxonomic status: The taxonomic or nomenclatural status (or both) of this entity is in some way unresolved and requires further investigation.
Nomenclatural notes
Stackhouse did not designate a type of the two species he included: M. exapansa Stackhouse and M. echinata (Stackhouse) Stackhouse [=Fucus echinatus Stackhouse; the first refers to Fucus mamillosus Goodenough & Woodward (now Mastocarpus stellatus), renamed by him Mammillaria expansa Stackhouse, and the second (type localities, various in Cornwall) has also been referred to the same species. - (13 June 2013) - M.D. Guiry
Mammillaria Stackhouse is a rejected name in favour of Mammillaria Haworth, 1812, nom. cons (Cactaceae). - (13 June 2013) - M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 13 June 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 10 July 2025
