Branches
terete or leaf-like, often jointed, sometimes epiphytic
Leaves
scale-like or 0
Areoles
with 1 or 2 spines
Flowers
solitary, usually lateral
Calyx
not united above ovary; lobes 3-many, scale-like, greenish
Petals
6-10, oblong, spreading, green or white
Stamens
many; filaments subequal, perpendicular to perianth; anthers short
Ovary
smooth, usually glabrous; style divided into 2-many stigmas
Fruit
a subglobose berry, crowned with persistent perianth, sometimes with a few spines, cream-coloured; flesh white
Seeds
somewhat pear-shaped, dark brown to black
x = 11 (polyploidy)
Nomenclature:
Rhipsalis
Gaertn.
Gaertner: 137, t. 28 (1788) name conserved
Harvey: 479 (1862)
Britton & Rose 4: 219 (1923)
Berger: 89 (1929)
Obermeyer: 147 (1976)
IOS Working Party: 70 (1986)
IOS Working Party: 92 (1990)
Barthlott & Hunt: 188 (1993)
Barthlott & Taylor: 48 (1995)
Smith & Steyn: 135 (1997)
Distribution & Notes:
Global
: Species ± 50, Africa, Asia, America
Southern Africa
: Species 1:
Rhipsalis baccifera
(J.S.Mill.) Stearn subsp.
mauritiana
(DC.) Barthlott; KwaZulu-Natal coast into Eastern Cape near Komga
References:
BARTHLOTT, W. & HUNT, D.R. 1993.
Cactaceae
. In K. Kubitzki, J.G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich,
The families and genera of flowering plants
2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
BARTHLOTT, W. & TAYLOR, N.P. 1995. Notes towards a monograph of
Rhipsalideae
(
Cactaceae
).
Bradleya
13
BERGER, A. 1929.
Kakteen
. Ulmer, Stuttgart
BRITTON, N.L. & ROSE, J.N. 1919-1923.
The
Cactaceae
. Carnegie Institution, Washington
GAERTNER, J. 1788.
De fructibus et seminibus plantarum
. Academia Carolina, Stuttgart
HARVEY, W.H. 1862.
Cactaceae
.
Flora capensis
2
IOS WORKING PARTY 1986. The genera of the
Cactaceae
: towards a new consensus.
Bradleya
4
IOS WORKING PARTY 1990. The genera of
Cactaceae
: progress towards consensus.
Bradleya
8
OBERMEYER, A.A. 1976.
Cactaceae
.
Flora of southern Africa
22
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