Xerophyte

Central Spines

4 to several, stout , 1,5 to 2,5 cm long white with brownish to blackish tip.

Seeds

Black, pitted, globose, 1 mm. in diameter.

Description

Small plants completely covered with spines, growing in clumps and and resembling a small species of Echinocereus.

Note

This species is near Escobaria tuberculosaSN|10187]]SN|10187]], but it has much stouter central spines and greenish white, eciliate inner perianth-segments.

Flowers

2.5 cm. Long, creamy-white or greenish eventually with a darker mid ribs on outside, filaments, style and stigma lobes greenish.

Stem

Up to 7 cm tall, diameter 3,5 cm, branching from the base. Epidermis pale green.; old plants bearing naked corky tubercles.

Radial Spines

Approx 20 pure white, spreading, slender, up to 1 cm long.

Fruits

Globular or ovoidal up to 12 mm long, red at maturity.

Areoles

Roundish with white wool.