Xerophyte

Habit

is a small cactus with a much flattened usually solitary body (sometime forms small few branched clumps).

Central Spines

None or 1 to 3 stouter.

Flowers

About 4 to 8 cm broad, near the plant apex, red cup-shaped. The flower's tube is covered by hairy lanceolate-acute scales with hairy axils.

Ribs

It has 20 ribs spirally arranged, irregular and oblique, with raised to acute tubercles between which the areoles appear.

Stem

Glossy dark green, spherical broader than high, depressed and unarmed at apex, up to 15 cm in diameter.

Radial Spines

Longer and more porrect than in the standard Echinopsis cinnabarinaSN|9451]]SN|9451]], spreading, acicular, slender, Yellowish turning greyish eventually.

Areoles

Rounded with short whitish felt.