Flower star-like, to 4¾ inches (12 cm) across. Petals lanceolate, bicolored deep purple with a deep red base and midrib, outer petals and sepals projecting beyond inners, largely red. Throat-circle pale orange. Filaments dark waxy red or purplish. Stigma light green. Stem semicolumnar, to 3½ inches (9 cm) in diameter; central spines to ⅝ inch (17 mm) long. ISI 97-9; HBG 80595, Schick 936-2.
