The tapered, conical warts are blunt and lack milky sap, with naked axillae.

The cream-colored, funnel-shaped flowers have central stripes and are up to 1.5 cm (0.59 in) long and in diameter.

The red fruits are club-shaped and up to 2.5 cm (0.98 in) long, containing smooth black seeds.

[2] Cochemiea goodrichii grows in Baja California, Mexico, on the offshore islands of Cedros and Guadalupe.

First described in 1850 by Frederick Scheer in Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck's Cacteae in horto Dyckensi cultae anno 1849 as Mammillaria goodrichii, the species honors John Goodridge, who discovered it.