It has no fewer than 120 very thin, sharp-edged, pressed, wavy ribs, between which there are narrow furrows.

Three white, papery, curved central spines arise from the areole, which are up to 3 centimeters long and have a square cross-section.

[4] Though it has only been reported in the shrublands of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas,[5] and Tamaulipas,[6] it has yet to be assessed using the IUCN Categories and Criteria because its taxonomy is still unclear.

At the same time they published the first description of two species collected by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1868–1947).

In 1929, Alwin Berger placed the species described by Britton and Rose in Illustrated Handbooks of Succulent Plants: Cacti in the genus Stenocactus.