Clustering, body depressed globular or elongate, to 6 cm wide and 10 cm high, without milky sap. Axils white woolly. Tubercles obscure, conical. Central spines lacking. Radial spines 70-80 in several series, 2-5 mm long, white to golden-yellow at base, fine, hair-like. Flowers yellowish-white, 2 cm long and wide. Fruit carmine-red.

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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.