Xerophyte

Description

(Identifying Characteristics)

Roots

Succulent and Fasciculate.

Flowers

Near the tip of the stem, 1.5-2.5 × 1.8-2.5 cm; scales and outer tepals minutely toothed to entire and undulate; outer tepals yellow-bronze to peach-bronze or pink with purple midstripes, 4-10 × 3-6 mm; inner tepals yellow-bronze to peach-bronze (rarely pink), 6-12 × 4-6 mm. Blossoming time

Stem

Subglobose to obovoid to turbinate, 3.8-6 × 3-9.5 cm; Can swell to up to 3.8-6 cm in diameter and 3-9.5 cm in height

Fruits

Green, drying reddish brown, turbinate.

Areoles

Circular to oval, white to brown, villous to glabrate.