The 22 to 26 flexible, spreading, bristly marginal spines are not particularly piercing and are up to 6 centimeters long.

The funnel-shaped, white, pink flowers appear on the sides of the shoots and open during the day.

[2] Leucostele skottsbergii is widespread in the Coquimbo region of Chile at altitudes of 200 to 800 meters.

The first description as Trichocereus skottsbergii by Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg was published in 1950.

The specific epithet skottsbergii honors the Swedish botanist and explorer Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg.