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Description
Stems
scandent, clambering or sprawling, branching, producing aerial roots, stiff, to 3 m long, 10-15(-20) mm thick; ribs 6-7, narrow, acute; areoles on small tubercles, round with whitish wool, internodes 10-20 mm; spines to 5-7(-10) mm long, acicular, radiating, white or pale yellow, radial spines (8-)10-11, paler, central spines 1-2(-4), longer and thicker, bristels from lower part of areole 2-3, 5 mm long, white; epidermis green or pale green, margins often purplish, shiny
Flowers
20-25 cm, produced near top of stems, nocturnal, markedly fragrant; pericarpel ovoid with many white areoles, short bracteoles, hairy and with long, softish white or yellow spines; receptacle ca 12cm long, brtaceoles purplish, with hairs and bristles; outer tepals linear, greenish white, the outermost reddish brown; inner tepals 10 cm long, 12-15 mm wide, lanceolate, acuminate, white; stamens white, slightly exceeding the stamens; style white, exceeding the stamens.
Fruit globular, red, 25 mm in diameter with white spines, 10 mm long. |
