| Habitat | Texas to Mexico |
| Leaf Description | Reduced to a spine or often without spines, if present the spines are 12 mm or less, with many spines per areole, areoles resembling reddish-brown hairy tufts, areoles 3.5-5 cm apart. |
| Flower Description | Flowers: inner tepals yellow throughout, aging apricot to orange, obovate-apiculate, 25-38 mm; filaments whitish; anthers yellow; style green; stigma lobes dark green. |
| Fruit Description | Fruits red with green flesh, obovate, 20-35 mm long and 15-23 mm wide, fleshy, short pubescent, spineless; umbilicus 5-7 mm deep; areoles 36-52. |
