Rhipsalis dissimilis
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Rhipsalis dissimilis is a species of plant in the genus Rhipsalis fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae).
description
Rhipsalis dissimilis grows epiphytically or lithophytically with open, strictly acrotonic , initially upright and later overhanging, very variable shoots of unlimited growth. There are three to nine low ribs . Sometimes the shoots are almost round or rarely three to five-sided. They have a diameter of 4 to 10 millimeters and are 5 to 15 centimeters long.
The light yellow to yellow flowers appear laterally from sunken wooly areoles and reach a diameter of 1 to 1.5 centimeters. The almost spherical fruits are red and have a white base.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Rhipsalis dissimilis is common in the Brazilian states of Paraná and São Paulo at altitudes of 800 to 1100 meters.
It was first described as Lepismium dissimile in 1890 by Gustaf Anders Lindberg . Karl Moritz Schumann placed the species in the genus Rhipsalis in the same year .
In the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN is the species as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. listed as endangered.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 571 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ E. Regel (Ed.): Garden flora . Monthly for German and Swiss gardening and floriculture . Volume 39, Erlangen 1890, p. 148.
- ↑ Flora Brasiliensis . Volume 4, Part 2, 1890, pp. 286-287, (online) .
- ↑ Rhipsalis dissimilis in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Taylor, NP & Zappi, D., 2010. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
