A new species of Mammillaria, named Mammillaria breviplumosa, is described from Mexico (Durango, Municipality of Mapimí). It is morphologically very similar to M. sanchez-mejoradae. Diagnostic features of the proposed new species are the cylindrical and apically truncate tubercles, the embedded fruits, the white-magenta striped perianth segments, the small feather-like spines and the helicoidal arrangement of the tubercles on the stem. A diagnostic key for the closest species of Mammillaria occurring in northern Mexico is proposed.

Keywords: Chihuahuan Desert, Durango, Mammillaria ser. Lasiacanthae, taxonomy, Eudicots

    

 Mammillaria breviplumosa 

   

   

Leccinum J. García-Morales, Ricardo Ramírez-Chaparro, Alejandro Sigala-Chávez and Duilio Iamonico. 2020. Mammillaria breviplumosa (Cactaceae, Cacteae), A New Species from Mexico. Phytotaxa. 452(3); 231–235. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.452.3.6