Xerophyte

Habit

This population grows depending upon location flat and drawn into the soil.

Central Spines

1-5(-7) difficult to distinguish, subulate, 10-18 mm long, reddish-brown with a darker tip.

Seeds

Like Lobivia acanthoplegmaSN|22407]]SN|9457]] Backeberg, ovoid spherical, about 1 mm long, covered with remnants of pulp, testa black, bumpy.

Stigma and Style

Very short, green, stigma lobes12 yellowish-green.

Flowers

Funnel-shaped 45 mm in length and 50 mm in diameter, ovary and tube light green with very delicate pink scales and dense long brown hair, outer tepals very narrow and long, green with pink edges, the inner tepals oval serrate, dark red with a purple bloom and a white throat.

Stamens

Whitish-pink with a green base set in two series, the first not numerous on the inner surface of the throat, the other on its edge.

Stem

100 mm wide and tall globose to short-cylindrical, crown slightly depressed, light green to dark green with about 20 spiralling ribs, with narrow tubercles about 10 mm long.

Radial Spines

Approx 13-14, needle-like, spreading, addpressed and bent inwards 8-10 mm long, straw-yellow, horn coloured, sometimes light or dark brown to black with a darker tip.

Fruits

Oval, tapering upward, 15 mm long, with very small pink scales and long brown to grey hair, drying at maturity, cracking vertically,

Areoles

Oval to circular 4-5 mm long, 3 to 4 mm wide, apart from each other with white tomentum in younger areoles that soon disappears..