Spreading shrub, to c.100 cm high, often somewhat creeping, forming clumps to 3 metres wide, trunk absent. Terminal cladodes compressed, broadly obovate, 8–15 cm long, 6–12 cm wide, dull mid green, minutely pubescent; areoles 80–100 per cladode face, 4–10 mm apart, filled with yellowish-brown glochids; spines absent. Flowers 3–5 cm diam.; sepaloids with green centres and yelllow margins, often tinged red; petaloids spreading, mid yellow, mucronate; stamens pale yellow; style pale greenish yellow, stigmas green; hypanthium more or less tuberculate. Fruit subglobose to ovoid, deeply depressed at apex when young, 2.5–3 cm long, 2–3 cm diam., not tuberculate, dark red. Flowers late spring–summer.
MuM. Also naturalised WA, SA, NSW. Native to Mexico. In Victoria known from a single collection at Wandown State Wildlife Reserve, near Annuello.
