It has a globular shape, few spines, with large, white flowers attached to long, green tubes.

[4] Under its synonym Echinopsis ancistrophora it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

The white to light pink, narrow funnel-shaped flowers, slightly curved above the ovary, are 17 to 20 centimeters long.

[6][7] Lobivia ancistrophora is widespread near Angosto de Villamontes in the Entre Ríos Municipality in the Tarija Department in Bolivia at altitudes of 600 meters.

[8] The specific epithet subdenudata is derived from the Latin words sub for "under" and denudatus for "exposed" and refers to the insignificant thorns on the shoots.