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Rhipsalis teres


Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Cactus teres, Hariota teres, Rhipsalis conferta, Hariota conferta, Hariota cribrata, Rhipsalis cribata, Erythrorhipsalis cribata, Rhipsalis riedeliana, Hariota riedeliana, Hariota prismatica, Rhipsalis prismatica, Rhipsalis pendula, Rhipsalis floribunda, Rhipsalis capilliformis, Rhipsalis virgata, Rhipsalis tetragona, Rhipsalis gracilis, Rhipsalis heteroclada, Rhipsalis alboareolata, Rhipsalis alboareolata, Rhipsalis clavellina, Rhipsalis maricaensis
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Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Rhipsalideae
Distribution: Brazil (South America)
Habit: Cylindrical-Pendent
Flower: WhiteEncounterability: Common Worldwide
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Rhipsalis teres
R. teres
Picture taken at: Daiv Freeman's Private Collection

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Rhipsalis teres
R. teres
Picture taken at: Daiv Freeman's Private Collection

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Rhipsalis teres
R. teres
Picture taken at: Daiv Freeman's Private Collection

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Rhipsalis teres
R. teres
Picture taken at: Daiv Freeman's Private Collection

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Rhipsalis teres
R. teres
Picture taken at: Daiv Freeman's Private Collection

Photographer: Daiv Freeman
Rhipsalis teres
R. teres
Picture taken at: Daiv Freeman's Private Collection

Photographer: Daiv Freeman

Rhipsalis teres f. heteroclada


Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Cactus teres, Hariota teres, Rhipsalis conferta, Hariota conferta, Hariota cribrata, Rhipsalis cribata, Erythrorhipsalis cribata, Rhipsalis riedeliana, Hariota riedeliana, Hariota prismatica, Rhipsalis prismatica, Rhipsalis pendula, Rhipsalis floribunda, Rhipsalis capilliformis, Rhipsalis virgata, Rhipsalis tetragona, Rhipsalis gracilis, Rhipsalis heteroclada, Rhipsalis alboareolata, Rhipsalis alboareolata, Rhipsalis clavellina, Rhipsalis maricaensis
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Subfamily: Cactoideae
Tribe: Rhipsalideae
Distribution: Brazil (South America)
Habit: Cylindrical-Pendent
Flower: WhiteEncounterability: Common Locally in Some Areas
Original Description: The Cactaceae 4 p.224 - Britton & Rose (1920)
Stems stiff, dark green, but purple about areoles and tips of branches, often erect in cultivation, much branched toward top of plant; branches often in verticillate clusters, much more slender than the main stem, 1 to 2 mm in diameter; areoles small, often bearing a single bristle; flowers small, white or greenish; petals 5, obtuse, spreading or recurved; filaments about 20, white, erect; style white, sunken at base into a little cup; stigma-lobes 3, white; ovary green, about 2 mm long; fruit globose, 5 to 6 mm in diameter, white.
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Rhipsalis teres
R. teres f. heteroclada
Picture taken at: Grigsby Cactus Gardens, Vista, CA

Photographer: Daiv Freeman

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