Rhipsalis baccifera

(JSMueller)Stearn

◊ Adnot. Cact. Journ. (Croydon) 7:107 (1939)
◊◊ Cassytha baccifera JSMueller - Ilustr. syst. sex. Linnaei Class IX Ordo I (1771)
Opuntia minima flagelliformis Plum - Cact. Pl. Am. 6 (1703)
Cactus parasiticus inermis Browne - Jam. 238 (1756)
Cactus parasiticus Lamarck non L non Browne - Encycl. 1:541 (1768)
Cassytha filiformis Miller non L - Gard. Dict. 8 (1768)
Rhipsalis cassutha Gaertn - De fructibus et seminibus plantarum 1:137, afb. 28 (1788)
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- Stems cylindrical, green. Acrotone branched in up to eight-part whorls. Young stems with bristly spines. Older stems 10-20 cm long, 3-4 mm across, sometimes with aerial roots. Areoles small, glabrous or with small bristly spines. Flower 5 mm long. Pericarpel as long or longer than perianth. Ovary round, green, with 1-2 scales. Outer petals up to 5 mm long, greenish white. Petals white or pinkish-white, in some forms to pinkish-red. Stamens white. Style white, longer than the petals. Fruit spherical to slightly oblong, 7 mm long, 5 mm diameter, white, sometimes pink. Seed 1.5 mm, black. Self-fertile.

- Brazil, Venezuela, Surinam, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, Florida, tropical Africa, Sri Lanka. Epiphytic and epilitic, up to 1600 m.

Plumier-Burman - Plantarum americanum fasciculus VII, Afb. 197, fig. 2 (Opuntia minima flagelliformis) (1703)
Hooker - Exotic Flora I, Afb. 2 (1823)
Loddiges - Botanical cabinet IX, Afb. 865 (1824)
Botanical magazine Afb. 3080 (1831)
Frst&Rmpl 888, 889'
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