Xerophyte

Central Spines

4 black soon turning grey, bristly more or less tortuous, lowest 1-1,5 cm long, upper up to 2,5 cm long.

Description

Delaetia woutersianaSN|16083]]SN|16083]] (syn

Flowers

About 2 cm in diameter pink with a yellow throat. Outer petals with a brownish-yellow darker midrib. Tube very hairy.

Ribs

about 13 strongly tuberculated.

Stem

Roundish, grey-green, with finely dotted epidermis.

Fruits

Opening basally.

Areoles

Large, round to somewhat elongated white.