Hermaphrodite plant, succulent, cactiform, with stems branched from the base, stoloniferous, green, which in height do not usually exceed 0.5 m but, spreading along the ground and especially when hanging from slopes or rocks, they can reach up to the 2(4) m long, 1.3-2 cm wide. They are tetragonal, with obtuse angles and concave faces. On the angles there are tiny elongated teeth that, in the juvenile parts, carry the leaves. These are ovate-cuspid and soon deciduous. Inflorescence lateral or terminal, sparse, generally fewer than 10 flowers. The flowers have a very unpleasant odor. They are arranged in lateral umbellate groups, towards the apex of the stem, sessile, with 2-10 flowers. Pedicels 6-8 mm long. Fleshy calyces, with free sepals almost to the base. Corolla 20-25 mm in diameter, rotated, with five acute, triangular lobes, c. 5mm at the base; basally with light and dark bands: the dark are red to dark purple and towards apex they become so dense that the corolla color becomes uniform and warty, with a few fine hairs only on margins near tip. Double and pentamerous crown, with external lobes provided with 2 recurved horns, and the internal ones as long as the anthers, which are yellow. The stigmas are pentagonal and whitish. The fruit is an elongated follicle (8-12 \u00d7 1-2.5 cm), smooth, with some longitudinal dark lines, straight and attenuated at the apex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-45075","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n