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Often considered a smaller, more delicate version of M. adansonii with more rounded leaf bases.
Native to Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Parana in Brazil, where it grows as an epiphyte in forest from near sea level to about 1000 m.
A caudiciform succulent with a swollen, balloon-shaped silvery-gray caudex up to 40cm in diameter. The plant reaches up to 90cm in height with slender reddish-brown branches bearing paired spines. Produces bright yellow, fragrant flowers on long peduncles. Leaves are narrow and deciduous during the dry season.
Native to Colima, Guanajuato, Jalisco and Michoacan in Mexico, growing epiphytically in tropical deciduous and oak forests at elevations of 680 to 1,850 m.