Mammillaria rhodantha Link & Otto subsp. rhodantha in Icon. pl. rar. 1829: 51. 1829 sec. Hunt 2016
- =Mammillaria fulvispina Haw. in Philos. Mag. Ann. Chem. 7: 108. 1830 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria pulchra Haw. in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 16: t. 1329. 1830 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria chrysacantha Link & Otto ex Pfeiff., Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 28. 1837 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria fuscata Link & Otto ex Pfeiff., Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 28. 1837 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria rutila Zucc. ex Pfeiff., Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 29. 1837 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria ruficeps Lem., Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 37. 1839 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Cactus rhodanthus (Link & Otto) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 1891 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria rhodantha var. sulphurea K. Schum., Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 550. 1898 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Neomammillaria rhodantha (Link & Otto) Britton & Rose, Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 121. 1923 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria calacantha Tiegel in Kakteenkunde 1933: 234. 1933 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria bonavitii Repp., Gatt. Mammillaria: 66. 1987 syn. sec. Guzmán & al. 2003
- =Mammillaria rhodantha subsp. fuscata (Link & Otto ex Pfeiff.) Rogoz. & Plein in Mitteilungsbl. Arbeitskreises Mammillarienfr. 28: 28. 2004 syn. sec. Rogozinski & Plein 2004