◊ Cact. Syst. Init. 36:34 (2017)
◊◊ Cereus stenopterus RGoss - Weber, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 8:458 (1902)
Hylocereus stenopterus (Web)Br&R - Contr. US Nat. Herb. 12:429 (1909)
- Irregularly branched, with few aerial roots, three-angled, ±4 cm diameter, sharp, green, around the areoles brown. Areoles 3-3,5 cm apart, slightly raised. Spines 2 3, thick, 1 3 mm long, yellow. Flower 9 10 cm long. Scales 0,5 2 cm long, 1 cm broad, overlapping, greenish to yellowish, the lower ones with some cream hairs, less than 0,5 mm long. Receptacle 4,5 5,5 cm long, 1 2 cm diameter. Outer petals linear, brown or red-purple. Inner petals purple-red, with light edges, lanceolate, 4 8 cm long. Filaments light yellow. Lower part of style light yellow, upper part pink-cream, stigmas cream. Fruit globose, 7 cm diameter, shiny, yellowish green, later red. Seed 2,5 3x1,5 2x0,75 1 mm, smooth.
- Central America (common in Costa Rica, T:Vallée de Tuis), up to 1000 m.
Cact. 2:190', plate 27
Backeberg 2:812
CSJ(USA) 40:11'; 56(4):179; 72():255"
Icones. Pl. Succ. 40:11-13" (1968)
Bravo 1:455
Succulenta 78(2):51'
KuaS 34():116-119; 36():134-140
EPIG 8(4):120"; 10(4):125
Cact. Syst. Init. 17:32
NCL 140"