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|accepted_name=Mammillaria viridiflora
|accepted_authority=(Britton & Rose) Boedeker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mamm.-vergl.-Schlüssel,
|place=36. 1933
|year=1933
}}
|common_names=Green flower nipple cactus
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Neomammillaria viridiflora
|authority=Britton & Rose
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mammillaria orestera
|authority=L. D. Benson
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae;Mammillaria;Mammillaria viridiflora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cactaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mammillaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mammillaria viridiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 98, 248, 250
|treatment_page=page 251
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>usually unbranched. <b>Roots</b>: upper portion of primary root somewhat thickened and succulent proximally, otherwise fibrous. <b>Stems</b> flat-topped or spheric to short cylindric, ± flaccid; tubercles (5–)6–15(–17) mm; axils appearing naked; cortex and pith mucilaginous; latex absent. <b>Spines</b> 19–31(–34) per areole, usually white or brown-and-white (rarely bright reddish brown), glabrous (to hoary); radial spines (13–)15–23(–31) per areole, in 1 series, bristlelike, stiff; central spines 1–2(–4) per areole, porrect or strongly projecting, all hooked, (7.5–)10–20(–31) × 0.2–0.4 mm; subcentral spines 0 [several in M. barbata]. <b>Flowers</b> (1.5–)2–3.5(–3.9) × (1.2–)1.8–3(–4.2) cm; outermost tepal margins long fringed, reaching 1 mm; inner tepals usually white, cream, pale tan, greenish white, or pale rose-pink, sometimes appearing pale orange proximally due to reflection of yellow anthers, usually with ± sharply defined pink midstripes (often suffused with brown, yellow, pink, red, purple, or green, darkest and brightest distally on most plants), (7.5–)12–17(–21) mm; stigma lobes green or yellow-green. <b>Fruits</b> green or purple, ovoid or obovoid, (6–)10–16(–22) × (4–)6–12(–13) mm, juicy throughout; floral remnant persistent. <b>Seeds</b> chocolate brown with darker reticulation, 1.3 × 0.9 mm, pitted; testa hard; anticlinal cell walls straight; interstices conspicuously narrower than pit diameters; pits bowl-shaped. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring; fruiting fall.
|habitat=Semidesert grasslands, interior chaparral, pinyon-juniper and oak woodlands, crevices, boulders, canyon sides and gravelly igneous substrates
|elevation=(800-)1400-2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>Mammillaria viridiflora is closely related to M. barbata Engelmann of Mexico, which has priority if the species are combined.</p>
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name=Mammillaria viridiflora
|author=
|authority=(Britton & Rose) Boedeker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Mammillaria orestera
|basionyms=Neomammillaria viridiflora
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring; fruiting fall.
|habitat=Semidesert grasslands, interior chaparral, pinyon-juniper and oak woodlands, crevices, boulders, canyon sides and gravelly igneous substrates
|elevation=(800-)1400-2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mamm.-vergl.-Schlüssel,
|publication year=1933
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae
|genus=Mammillaria
|species=Mammillaria viridiflora
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