Xerophyte

Central Spines

3 (-4) the upper two ca. 10 mm long, the lower one up to the 3 cm long.Flowers. 4 cm long, opening approximately 4.5 cm wide. Scales of the ovary, very narrow, about 5 mm long (3/4 of which consisting in a dark dry awn), wrapped by tight white woolly hairs, the upper scales each have a bristle in the axil. Tube about 10-12 mm long and 3-4 mm wide, yellow inside, funnel-shaped, campanulate to almost bowl-shaped, outside with brown hairs, and long awned scales. Perianth segments spatulate pale yellow to golden yellow ca 2 cm longand 6-8 mm wide. Stamens pale yellow, 5-10 mm long, the lower upright, the upper bent inwards. Anthers pale yellow. Style light yellow, about 17 mm long, stigma-lobes 10-12 pale yellow ca. 6 mm long.

Seeds

Dark brown, a little smaller than in Parodia schumannianaSN|1161]]SN|1141]], about 0.7 mm long, bell-shaped.

Ribs

32-48, about 10 mm hight.

Stem

Cylindrical up 1.80 m long and 30 cm thick.

Areoles

Less woolly.Marginal spines. about 5, gold or brown, later brown or grey, the lower pair up to 10 mm long, the uppermost unpaired, ca. 7 mm long or shorter.