Xerophyte

Central Spines

1-4 per areola, 10-53 mm long mostly straight-projecting

Seeds

1-1,35 x 1 mm somewhat tuberculate.

Description

Melocactus bahiensisSN|2283]]SN|2283]] is a small globular cactus easily distinguished by its ribbed stem capped by a cephalium with wool and brown bristles. It remembers a crowned head

Cephalium

Mostly small with many brown bristles up to 5 cm high and 6,5-8,5 cm in diameter.

Flowers

18-23 mm long, 10-12 mm wide. Pericarpel 6,5-8,5 cm long with white wool and bristles.

Chromosome Number

2n = 44

Ribs

(8-)10-12(-14) flattened to acute and quite variable in shape.

Stem

Depressed-spherical, globose or pyramidal, light to dark green 10-21 cm tall, 11-21 cm in diameter in diameter.

Radial Spines

7-12 mostly straight. 13-50(60) mm long, the lowermost only a little longer than the others.

Fruits

Berry, club-shaped up to 25 mm long, 9 mm in diameter, red to crimson on the top white or pale pink at the base.

Areoles

White10-24 mm apart.