Plants usually unbranched, some-times clumped. Stems subglobose to obovoid, 3.9-6.8 × 2.7-5 cm; areoles elliptic to circular, lanate (rarely glabrate). Spines smooth, relatively hard, all radial, 8-14 per areole, spreading downward, white or whitish to tan, 1.5-4 mm. Flowers 1.7-2.2 × 1.7-3 cm; scales and outer tepals minutely toothed or entire and undulate; outer tepals peach to pink with reddish brown midstripes, 10-15 × 4-6 mm; inner tepals peach or pink, oblanceolate, 12-16 × 3-5 mm. Fruits green, drying reddish brown, without scales, turbinate, 7-10 × 8-11 mm. Seeds black, to 3 × 2 mm, shiny, papillate and rugose.
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