Xerophyte

Habit

Plants usually solitary unless damaged.

Central Spines

2 to many off-white near the bases to brownish-black towards the tips,

Seeds

Dark-purplish red to black, berrylike, indeishent.

Note

Acharagma is a genus formed by only two small species of cacti

Tubercles

Fleshy, pyramidal-conical, not grooved, somewhat flexible, to 5 mm long.

Flowers

From the stem apex, yellowish to reddish yellow, 18 mm long, to 20 mm in diameter. Stigma-lobes 5-6 yellow. Perianth-segments eciliate

Spines

Numerous all more or less similar.

Stem

Globose to depressed spherical, soft, medium to dark green, often tinged with bronze-rose or purple, to 5 cm high, 5-7 cm in diameter.

Radial Spines

13-16, often in two series, 8–15 mm long either whitish with darker tips or even orange to plum coloured.

Fruits

Greenish purple or bronze coloured, to 12 mm long, 3.5 mm in diameter.

Areoles

Apical, without glands.