Habit Opuntia-like with more or less oblong slightly flattened stem segments with scattered spine dots. Flowers dark pink, bilaterally symmetrical.

SE Brazil

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.