Description
Stems
scandent, clambering or sprawling, branching, producing aerial roots, stiff, to 2 m long or more, 10-15(-25) mm thick; ribs (6-)8(-10), 2-3 mm high, well separted, not tuberculate, terete in age; areoles with white wool, internodes 10-15(-20) mm; spines acicular, stiff, white or whitish, later brown or yellowish brown, 3-10 mm long not regulary arranged radials 8-12, centrals 2-6 in two series, bristles from lower part of areole 3-6mm, white or whitish; epidermis light green, younger stems often purple, smooth.
Flowers
15-25 cm long, 20 cm in diameter; pericarpel 20 mm, with acisular spines, 3-8 per areole; receptacle c. 9 cm long, 11 mm wide below, 25 mm thick above, bracteoles small and brownish spines; outer tepals linear, acute, 6cm long, brownish white or greenish white; inner tepals linear-lanceolate, 6 cm long, acuminate, white; stamens reclinate, white, greenish at base; style thin, greenish, white at apex, stigma lobes 12, linear, white.
Fruit 7 cm, rose red, with podaria, areoles with white wool and 8-15 yellowish spines, 8 mm long.
Seeds 2 mm long, 1 mm thick, shiny, black |
