Hatiora epiphylloides

Hatiora epiphylloides
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Rhipsalideae
Genre :	Hatiora
Type :	Hatiora epiphylloides
Scientific name
	Hatiora epiphylloides
	( Postage & Werderm. ) Buxb.

Hatiora epiphylloides is a species of plant in the genus Hatiora from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet epiphylloides comes from the Greek -oides for 'to resemble' and the name of the genus Epiphyllum and refers to the branches that resemble these.

description

Hatiora epiphylloides grows epiphytically and shrubby with mostly hanging shoots . The flattened, bright green shoot segments are 2 to 3 inches long and up to 1.5 inches wide. The very small areoles have no thorns .

The sulfur-yellow flowers are 1 to 2 centimeters long.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Hatiora epiphylloides is distributed in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais , Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo at altitudes of 800 to 2000 meters. It was first described as Rhipsalis epiphylloides in 1935 by Paulo Campos Porto and Erich Werdermann . Franz Buxbaum placed them in the Hatiora genus in 1957 .

Synonyms are Hariota epiphylloides (Porto & Werderm.) Porto & Castell. (1941, incorrect name ICBN -Article 11.4) and Pseudozygocactus epiphylloides (Porto & Werderm.) Backeb. (1942).

The following subspecies are distinguished:

Hatiora epiphylloides subsp. epiphylloides

Plants with larger shoot segments that are not widened at the apex

Hatiora epiphylloides subsp. bradei (Porto & A.Cast.) Barthlott & NPTaylor

Plants with smaller shoot segments broadened at the apex

In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. listed as endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 341-342 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 76.
↑ Yearbook of the German Cactus Society in the German Society for Garden Culture . Volume 1, 1935, p. 47.
↑ Cacti and other succulents . Volume 8, Number 8, 1957, p. 116.
↑ Hatiora epiphylloides in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Taylor, NP & Zappi, D., 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2014.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 76.

[2] Yearbook of the German Cactus Society in the German Society for Garden Culture . Volume 1, 1935, p. 47.

[3] Cacti and other succulents . Volume 8, Number 8, 1957, p. 116.

[4] Hatiora epiphylloides in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Taylor, NP & Zappi, D., 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2014.