Freely clustering and mounding, body globular to 7 cm wide, without milky sap. Tubercles obscure. Axils white woolly. Central spines lacking. Radial spines 40, 3-7 cm long, white, feathery. Flowers yellowish to greenish, to 1.5 cm long and wide. Fruit red.

NE Mexico

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.