Shrubs or trees, with short trunk, many branched, 0.5-1.5 m. Stem segments not disarticulating, grayish green, flattened, reni-form, circular, elliptic, or obovate, (7.5-)10-18(-25) × 5-25 cm, low tuberculate, pubescent; areoles 8-13 per diagonal row across midstem segment, circular, 3-3.2 mm diam.; wool white to tan, aging gray. Spines absent. Glochids numerous, nearly filling areole, red-brown to white, 1-2.5 mm. Flowers: inner tepals yellow throughout, aging apricot to orange, obovate-apiculate, 25-38 mm; filaments whitish; anthers yellow; style green; stigma lobes dark green. Fruits red with green flesh, obovate, 20-35 × 15-23 mm, fleshy, short pubescent, spineless; umbilicus 5-7 mm deep; areoles (30-)36-52. Seeds yellowish, elliptic to subcircular, angular, 3-3.5 × 2.5-2.8 mm, thick, sides smooth or with 1-2 depressions; girdle protruding about 0.3 mm. 2n = 22.
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