Xerophyte

Description

Usually solitary or slowly clumping 10-20 mm high (bu much more in cultivation), 25-50(-70)mm wide grey-green to purple, flat to globular depressed merging into a strong tuberous root .

Tubercles

Poorly developed nearly non-existent low and rounded.

Flowers

Dirty white to pale pinkish-tan with a brown midstripe, 25mm long, 15mm wide. This species flowers in autumn/winter rather than the spring.

Spines

Mature plants have (usually) one spine, rigid white with grey tip 10mm long. Juvenile have 7 to 10 spreading radials.