Stem color yellow-green; older spines gray, some flesh colored or pinkish-gray, newer ones reddish, 11-12 spines per aerole; rib count 13; flower collected in the afternoon, diameter 40 mm, length 35 mm, outer perianth yellow with reddish-pink to reddish-brown midstripe, inner perianth yellow, flower covered in soft, fuzzy glochids; stigma lobe number 10, yellow; dry fruit are gray, diameter 12-13 mm, length 13-17 mm; seeds black. Plant is dead.