Xerophyte

Central Spines

0-3projecting up to 25 mm brown to black.

Description

Solitary or occasionally clumping and forming cluster up to 30 cm in diameter

Roots

Fibrous.

Flowers

Funnel shaped length up to 9 cm, diameter up to 8 cm bright purple-pink with a yellow-green throat. Bud hairy and spined, tube green, filament greenish, anther yellow, pollen yellow, style white-greenish, stigma 9-14 lobed green.

Ribs

9-16

Stem

Green up to 35 cm tall, 8 cm in

Radial Spines

9-16 light-grey or brownish to dark-grey adpressed up to 13 mm.

Areoles

Oval.