[2] Mammillaria muehlenpfordtii is a succulent plant that grows rapidly and forms large clusters.

These central spines vary in color from yellowish to brown and gray, ranging from 2 to 40 mm in length.

The plant produces carmine red flowers in a wreath-like arrangement, each reaching a size of 1.5 cm in diameter.

[3] The plant is native to the Mexican states of Guanajuato, Querétaro, and San Luis Potosí, Mammillaria muehlenpfordtii grows at elevations of 1700 to 2400 meters.

Mammillaria muehlenpfordtii was first described in 1847 by Carl Friedrich Förster, the plant's specific epithet, muehlenpfordtii, honors the German physician and botanist Philipp August Friedrich Mühlenpfordt from Hanover.