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Description
Stems
climbing, repent or pendent, profusely branching, rather stout, producing aereal roots, stem sections 10-400 cm long, the lower 1-4 cm terete, 0,5-1,5 cm wide, 3-angled above (1-)3(-5) cm wide, margins nearly stright to more or less rounded and toothed, highest point just below the areoles; areoles 2 mm wide, wool white to blackish, internodes 1-3 cm; spines 0-2, coniv'cal to acicular, to 2 mm long, brownish; leaves deltoid, 1 mm long or less; epidermis deep green, not glaucous, smooth.
Flowers
from subapical areoles, broadly funnelform, 7-8 cm long, 4-5 cm wide, nocturnal and odourous, pericarpel to 2 cm long, 1,5 cm wide; entire receptacle 5-6 cm long, 12-14 mm at middle, ca 5-22 mm long, 3-6 mm wide, at apex, green, podaria with deltoid bracteoles, areoles with black hairs and spines; outer tepals recurved with upcurved apices, inner ones spreading or suberect, linear-lanceolate to suboblong, 22-25 mm long, greenish yellow to brownish pink, strongly concave; inner tepals expanding, oblong, 18-23 mm long, 7-11 mm wide, flesh colored to creamy white, slightly concave; stamens radiate or erect flowers, otherwise delinate, cream on upper part, greenish below, nearly all inserted in two zones, as long or longer than tepals, anthers yellow; style 45-50 mm long, longer than the stamens, cream, stigma lobes 9-12, cream.
Fruit subglobose, 3-4 cm thick, citron-yellow, spiny, pulpa white, odorless and nearly tasteless, dried floral remains at the apex; seeds brownish black. |
