Small spineless clumping segmented succulent, that grows as a small erect segment chains. Very ornamental with bright yellow-brown glochids and white felt. Flowers white.
Flattened greyish-green or bluish stems with very characteristic wide, polygonal-rounded tubercles (hexagonal or pentagonal at the base). Flowers silvery-white or pinkish.
Matucana madisoniorum , sometimes found listed as Submatucana, is an attractive small globular plant with ribs resembling Lophophora, the ones that lack spines look so much like peyote that the uninformed may think they actually are.
