Xerophyte

Central Spines

1 to 6, stronger, yellowish with a darker reddish point, passing to grey,up to 3 cm. long. At first erected in the apex that tilts downward on the sides.

Seeds

About 1 mm in diameter, black tuberculate, longer than broad, hilum large, white.

Description

It is essentially a miniature plant that readily forms a small clumps resembling in habit and texture some of the species of Echinocereus.

Roots

Fleshy tap root

Flowers

From the summit of the stems that sometime cover completely the little pants body. Campanulate, yellow but drying reddish, up to 2,5 cm in diameter. Inner perianth segments oblong, tube proper very short, stamens shorter than the perianth segments, style about 8 mm long. Scales on the flowers tube and ovary minute bearing few white hairs in they axils

Blooming Season

Profusely flowering in June-July. Flowers appears in succession for a long time.

Ribs

11-13 low, margins nearly straight.

Stem

Clustering from the same thick root or basally branching, erect or prostrate, more or less ovoid-cylindrical up to 30 cm long and 3-4 cm in diameter. Epidermis shiny grey-green.

Radial Spines

12-30, very thin, acicular, setaceous, about 5 mm long, glassy white, covering almost completely the small stems

Fruits

Small 5-10 mm long, globular, greenish, shinning and almost naked, at first juicy.

Areoles

Closely set about 2-4 mm apart, roundish with white to brownish felt.