Description
Stems scandent, creeping, sprawling or clambering, branching profusely, 4-7,5 (-10) m long or more, joints to 30–120 cm long or more, 10–12 cm thick; ribs generally 3; margins corneous in age, undulate; areoles 2 mm in diameter; internodes 1–4 cm; spines on adult branches 1-3, 2–4 mm long, acicular to subconic, grayish brown to black, spreading; epidermis deep green. Flowers 25–30 cm long, 15–17 cm wide, nocturnal, scented; pericarpel 2,5–5 cm long, ca 2,5 cm thick, bracteoles ovate, acute, to 2,5 (-4 ) cm long; receptacle ca 3 cm thick, bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 3–8 cm long; outer tepals lanceolate-linear to linear, acuminate, 10–15 cm long, 10–15 mm wide mucronate, greenish yellow or whitish, rarely tinged rose; inner tepals lanceolate to oblanceolate, to 10–15 cm long ca 40 mm wide at widest point, mucronate, entire, acute to acuminate, white; stamens 5–10 cm long, declinate, inserted in one continuous zone from throat to 35 mm above pericarpel, cream; style to 17,5-24.5 cm long, stout, 6–8 mm thick, cream, stigma lobes to 26, entire or sometimes cleft at apex, cream, ca 25 mm long. Nectar chambers 30 mm long. Fruit oblong to ovoid, to 6–12 cm long, 4–9 cm thick, red with large bracteoles, pulp white, edible; seeds black.
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