Frailea uhligiana is a dwarf cactus with unique and remarkably beautiful shape. It is one of the geographical forms of the morphologically variable Frailea cataphracta subsp. duchii and it is distinguished for the green to bronze bodies with up to 25 ribs and less adpressed spines up to 4 mm long. The genus is cleistogamous, the colour of the flower is yellow. It is a s small depressed perennial stem succulent with age begins to clump around the base and grow oddly. It grows deep seated flat to the ground surface. Only in cultivation plants may have a spherical till columnar shape.