Selenicereus calcaratus

(Web)Hunt

◊ Cact. Syst. Init. 36:30 (2017)
◊◊ Cereus calcaratus Web - Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 8:458 (1902)
Hylocereus calcaratus (Web)Br&R - Contr. US Nat. Herb. 12:429 (1909)

- Stems 4-6 cm diameter, bright green. Ribs 3, with with large tubercles. Areoles very small, at the base of the tubercles, 4-6 cm apart. Spines 2-4, white, bristly. Flower ±35 cm long, funnelform, white, scenting. Receptacle 25 cm long. Outer petals reflexed, green-yellow. Inner petals white. Filaments yellow. Stigma yellow. Fruit unknown.

- Costa Rica: Puerto Limón (T), Cordillera Talamanca, 1700 m and higher.

Cact. 2:193, 194'
Backeberg 2:815"
Ash. 1-4:43",44,45
CSJ(USA) 39:104, 56(4):179
Icones. Pl. Succ. 39:102-105" (1967)
Bravo 1:453
NCL 139