Epiphyllum pittieri
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Epiphyllum pittieri is a species of plant in the genus Epiphyllum from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The epithet of the kind honors Henri Pittier .
description
Epiphyllum pittieri grows as a shrub with stiff, arched to pendulous shoots 2 to 3 meters long . The shoots are round at the base, flattened above, thin and up to 5 centimeters wide. The edge is roughly serrated. The areoles are up to 5 centimeters apart.
The salver-shaped white to greenish white flowers are 9.5 to 16 centimeters long and reach a diameter of 3 to 3.5 centimeters. Your flower tube is straight to strongly curved. The ellipsoidal to egg-shaped, dark red, smooth fruits are up to 2 centimeters long.
Distribution and systematics
Epiphyllum pittieri is distributed in Costa Rica in the Atlantic rainforest at altitudes of up to 830 meters. The first description as Phyllocactus pittieri was published in 1898 by Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber . Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in the genus Epiphyllum in 1913 .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 252 .