Quiabentia zehntneri grows shrubby with slender green shoots and reaches heights of up to 3 meters.

[2] Quiabentia zehntneri is distributed in northeastern Brazil on rocks in the open Caatinga vegetation at altitudes of 450 to 750 meters.

The first description as Pereskia zehntneri was made in 1919 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose.

[3] The specific epithet Zehntneri honors the Swiss biologist Leo Zehntner.

In the appendix to the fourth volume of their work The Cactaceae, the two authors created the new genus Quiabentia for the species in 1923.