Original Description:The Cactaceae 3
p.56 - Britton & Rose (1920)
More or less cespitose; plant globular, 5 to 7 cm in diameter; ribs 17 to 21, more or less undulate; areoles distant, white-felted when young, very spiny except in cultivated platns and then often spineless; spines 5 to 20, often more or less curved, acicular, often 5cm long, puberulent; flowers 5.5 to 6 cm long, red; outer perianth-segments linear-oblong, acuminate; inner perianth-segments oblong, acute to acuminate; scales on the ovary and fruit ovate, 4 to 6 mm long, acuminate, with long white hairs in their axils.
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