Xerophyte

Central Spines

1 erect 2-5 cm long.

Description

It forms large low clusters of firm, rubbery-textured green tangled, monstrous stems.

Flowers

Not known.

Spines

Amber coloured, thin aciculate.

Stem

The stem surface is naked or with a variable quantity of spines or woolly areoles, and the plant looks more like some non-cactus succulent than a cactus. Sometimes it will have a normal "patch" and remain mostly monstrous. The ribs (if present) are slender acute and not clearly tuberculated, but the monstrous areas are bumped and strangely corrugated.

Radial Spines

4-9 radiating shorter than the central.