Xerophyte

Habit

Plants solitary with spines almost hiding the body.

Central Spines

3-9 (usually 4), stronger than in typical Echinomastus unguispinusSN|14901]]SN|14901]], acicular, white, pale yellow to brownish but with brown to black tips, the upper side is always darker than the bottom side, straight to curved, up to 35 mm long, directed upwards, lower one robust, noticeably down-curved from near the base pointing outward and downward.

Flowers

Hardly gettig through the dense apical spines, funnelform, dirty yellowish-green but darkening as they ripen getting from green to reddish-brown, remaining erect up to 2.5 cm in diameter.

Ribs

13-21(-25) strongly tuberculate.

Stem

Globular with a slightly flattened apex to short cylindrical 7-14 cm tall, 7-15 cm in diameter, gray-green or bluish green.

Radial Spines

15-30 white to yellowish to blue-gray with black apex, becoming gray with age, 15-33 mm long irregularly spreading, some interlacing.

Areoles

Slightly elongated without (or with very reduced) nectar glands.