Hatiora salicornioides
(Haw)Br&R


◊ In: Bailey, Standard cyclopaedia of horticulture 3:1433 (1915)
◊◊ Rhipsalis salicornioides Haw - Supp. Plant. Succ. 83 (1819)
Cactus salicornioides (Haw)Lk&O - Abbildungen auserlesener Gewächse 49 (1822)
Cactus lyratus Velloso - Fl. Flum. 2(4):205 (1825), 5 (1827)
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- Bushy, profusely branched, often upright, to 40 cm long. Branches in whorls of 2-5, the lower cylindrical or barrel-shaped when young, later woody and with brown bark, 1-2,5 cm long, ±2 cm diameter. Secundary branches cylindrical or weakly angled, lower part narrowed, 1-3 cm long, 4-7 mm diameter. Areoles with few vilt and very small scales, sometimes with small spines (in culture always naked). Flower yellow to oranje, on terminal areoles of the branches, 1,2-1,3 cm long, 1 cm diameter. Filaments reddish, anthers light yellow. Pistil white. Ovary short cylindrical, naked. Petals adpressed against the filaments. Fruit whitish, translucent, upper part more reddish, round. Seed black, obovoid.

- Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, São Paulo, Paranÿ. Epifytic and epilitic, to 1850 m. Flowering period January.

Cact. 4:217, 4:218", plate 23
Frst&Rmpl 892
Backeberg 2:704", 706, 708", 709
Am. J. Bot. 65:326-333 (1978)
Ritter 1: 44", 284"
Succulenta 57(9):199"; 93(1):3"
KuaS 13(5):67"; 31(9):273"; 47(4):74"
Epiphytes 11-44:106"
CSJ(USA) 52(3):126, 127"
Bradleya 13:70', 73; 40:93
EPIG 4(1):12"
NCL 139"
CEB 228, 238''
Rodriguésia 71' (2020)