Origin and Habitat: Northem Sonora between Moctezuma and Nacozari, Mexico. Mammillaria miegianaSN|32872]]SN|32872]] occupies the northernmost part of the Mammillaria standleyiSN|9417]]SN|9417]] distribution area.
Altitude range: Altitude 500 - 1.300 metres above sea level.
Habitat and ecology: Mammillaria miegianaSN|32872]]SN|32872]] grows on hills in a mountanious area together with Echinocereus polyacanthusSN|8503]]SN|7070]], Echinocereus pectinatusSN|7070]]SN|8503]], Coryphantha recurvataSN|10231]]SN|10231]], Stenocereus thuberi and Agave parryiSN|247]]SN|247]].

• Mammillaria miegiana W.H.Earle

• Mammillaria standleyi (Britton & Rose) Orcutt
• Neomammillaria standleyi Britton & Rose
• Mammillaria auricantha R.T.Craig
• Mammillaria auritricha R.T.Craig
• Mammillaria bellacantha R.T.Craig
• Mammillaria canelensis R.T.Craig
• Neomammillaria canelensis (R.T.Craig) Y.Itô
• Mammillaria floresii Fritz Schwarz
• Mammillaria hertrichiana R.T.Craig
• Mammillaria laneusumma R.T.Craig
• Mammillaria lindsayi R.T.Craig
• Mammillaria lindsayi var. cobrensis Repp.
• Mammillaria cobrensis (Repp. ex Hils) Rogoz. & Plein
• Mammillaria sinforosensis subs. cobrensis (Repp.) Lizen & R.Schumach.
• Mammillaria lindsayi f. narlinii Rogoz. & Plein
• Mammillaria lindsayi var. robustior R.T.Craig
• Mammillaria lindsayi var. rubriflora Hils
• Mammillaria sinforosensis f. rubriflora (Hils) Lizen & R.Schumach.
• Mammillaria mayensis R.T.Craig
• Mammillaria miegiana W.H.Earle
• Mammillaria montensis R.T.Craig
• Mammillaria xanthina (Britton & Rose) Boed.
• Chilita xanthina (Britton & Rose) Orcutt
• Neomammillaria xanthina Britton & Rose

Description: Mammillaria miegianaSN|9417]]SN|32872]], is a large, solitary species with subglobose stems, appearing white and producing large, dark reddish-pink flowers with scarlet midveins. It is often included within (as a synonym of) the very variable Mammillaria standleyiSN|32872]]SN|9417]], suggesting that there is not really a fundamental difference between the two. It is one of the most densely covered by spines.
Derivation of specific name: This member of the Cactaceae family was given this name in honour of the US cacti collector Charles E. Mieg from Scottsdale. Mieg's mammillaria.
Stems: Globose to short cylindrical, to 16 cm tall and up to 10 cm across. With latex
Tubercles: Four-angled, axils woolly at first, later naked.
Radial spines: 10-11, dirty white, greyish to somewhat dull pink, straight or slightly curved, 8-9 mm long.
Central spines: 2, upper ascending, lower erect, brown, 7-8 mm long.
Flowers: Reddish pink with scarlet midveins, to 20 mm long and 25 mm in diameter.
Fruits: Club shaped, cherry red, to 25 mm long.
Seeds: Reddish brown.

Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) Edward F. Anderson “The Cactus Family” Timber Press, 2001
2) Orrell T. (custodian) (2016). ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (version Sep 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 25th March 2016 (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
3) Ulises Guzmán, Salvador Arias, Patricia Dávila “Catálogo de cactáceas mexicanas.” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexiko-Stadt 2003
4) Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton “Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names.” Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3, S. 154.
5) Saguaroland Bulletin. Desert Botanical Garden, 26:77 1972.
6) John Pilbeam “Mammillaria The Cactus File Handbook” Nuffield Press. 1999
7) Nelocactus; la uep de les Mammillaries, Echinocereus, Orquidees , Bonsais....i algo de valencianisme – Mammillaria miegiana – Results retrieved 16 April 2016 from <http://www.nelocactus.org/miegiana.html>
8) Cactus and Succulent Field Number Finder – Mammillaria miegiana – Results retrieved 16 April 2016 from <http://ralph.cs.cf.ac.uk/Cacti/finder.php?Plant=Mammillaria+miegiana+>

Cultivation and Propagation: This plant is easy to cultivate but slow growing. Cultivate it in a well drained and mineral substratum. Water regularly, avoid the use of peat or other humus sources in the potting mixture. It need full sun, so it keep a compact and flat shape. It does not tolerate intense cold, but tolerates some cold if kept dry. Frequent transplantations of the young plants protect the lower part of the stem from the lignification, to which the plant has a tendency.
Reproduction: It is propagated by seed. Sometimes old plants forms large clumps with several joints - but the removal of one of these joints may prove fatal to the plant.