Origin and Habitat: Chihuahua ( Los Molinos, Sierra Colorado, Barranca de Cobre, La Reforma, etc.) and Sinaloa (Mazatlan, Culiacan, El Nacimiento, Potrero de Cancio, Zapote de Madriles, Presa Huites, etc.), Mexico.
Altitude: 250-2000 metres above sea level.
Habitat: Grows in partial shade of canyon walls or rocky slopes, in leaf-mould in cracks in the rocks, in foothill thorn scrubs, in low dry forest and in pine-oak woodlands.

• Mammillaria lindsayi R.T.Craig

• 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 lindsayiSN|9417]]SN|20796]] is solitary or cespitose cactus branching from base, sometime forming very large clumps up to 1 m wide. Some authors consider this species only a form of the widespread an very variable Mammillaria standleyiSN|20796]]SN|9417]].
Stem: Symmetrically globose, depressed, with apex that often appears completely white, grey green, 12-15 cm high and in diameter. With latex.
Tubercles: Conical to quadrangular, keeled, arranged in numerous, close-set spirals. (Parastichy number 13-21) with dense white axillary wool and up to 8 white, twisted bristles.
Areoles: Oval and with white wool when young.
Radial spines: 10-14, white with tan to golden yellow bases, 2 - 8 mm long, upper ones shortest.
Central spines: 2-4 , straight, acicular/subulated, rigid, divergent, golden brown, reddish to almost black, the 2-3 uppermost short (approx 4 mm long) long, The lowermost longest 4 - 12 mm long (or more).
Flowers: Small, funnelform, 15 - 20 mm long, to 10 mm in diameter, light greenish yellow with orange-yellow midveins, .
Fruits: Club shaped to cylindrical, attractively deep coloured dull pinkish-red to scarlet, up to 20 mm long and 2 - 3 mm wide. .
Seeds: Brown.

Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) Pilbeam J., “The Cactus file, Mammillaria” 6: 120, Cirio Pub. Services, 01/Dec/1999
2) John Pilbeam “Cacti for the Connoisseur: A Guide for Growers & Collectors” Timber Press, 01/lug/1987
3) James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey "The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass" Cambridge University Press, 11/Aug/2011
4) David R Hunt; Nigel P Taylor; Graham Charles; International Cactaceae Systematics Group. "The New Cactus Lexicon" dh books, 2006
5) Edward Anderson “The Cactus family” Timber Press, Incorporated, 2001
6) Burquez Montijo, A. & Felger, R.S. 2013. Mammillaria standleyi. In: IUCN 2013. "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species." Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 13 January 2014.

Cultivation and Propagation: This plant is easy to cultivate but very 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.