Pilosocereus gounellei subsp. zehntneri

Low, much branched, and spreading; branches 3 to 4 cm in diameter, about 9-ribbed, more or less tubercled; areoles 1 to 2 cm apart, long-hairy when young; spines often 30 or more, only slightly spreading, all acicular and bright yellow, the centrals similar to the radials or a little longer, the longer ones 3 to 4 cm long; flowering areoles producing with the flowers long tufts of white wool; flowers slender, tubular, 6 to 7 cm long, white to light cream-colored; inner perianth-segments oblong, obtuse; style slender, glabrous, cone-shaped at base; ovary naked.

P. gounellei subsp. zehntneri