Solitary or clustering, body globular or elongate, to 5 cm wide and 8 cm high. Tubercles prominent. Axils woolly. Central spines 3-5, 7-8 mm long, lower spine often longer and curving. Radial spines 10-16, 5-8 mm long, reddish, later greyish, needle like. Flowers cream to pale yellow, 1 cm long. Fruit carmine.

W Indies, Grenadine Island, Venezuela

Source: Thompson, A, ; Forbes, S.; Spencer, R. (1997). Cactaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.