Harrisia brookii

Harrisia brookii grows as a shrub with richly branched, light green shoots 3 to 4 centimeters in diameter and reaches heights of up to 5 meters. There are ten distinct, deeply notched ribs. The nine to twelve brown to white thorns are up to 2.5 centimeters long.

The funnel-shaped flowers are around 20 centimeters long. Its floral tube and pericarpel are covered with long, pointed scales. The yellowish, ellipsoid to spherical fruits reach a diameter of up to 8 centimeters. They are covered with low tubercles and perennial scales.{{cite book | last=Anderson | first=Edward F. | last2=Eggli | first2=Urs | title=Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon | publisher=Ulmer | publication-place=Stuttgart (Hohenheim) | date=2005 | isbn=3-8001-4573-1 | language=de | page=338}}

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Harrisia brookii is common in the Bahamas at elevations of 0-20 meters.{{cite web | last=Franck| first=Alan R.| title=MONOGRAPH OF HARRISIA | url=http://www.phytoneuron.net/2016Phytoneuron/85PhytoN-HarrisiaPt1.pdf | publisher=Phytoneuron| date=2016| access-date=2023-11-25}}

The first description by Nathaniel Lord Britton was published in 1909. The specific epithet brookii honors the archivist Herbert A. Brooke from the Bahamas. A nomenclature synonym is Cereus brookii (Britton) Vaupel (1913).{{cite web | last=Club. | first=Torrey Botanical | title=Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club | publisher=Torrey Botanical Club | volume=v.35 (1908) | date=1908 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12621873 | access-date=2023-10-29}}

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Category:Flora of the Bahamas