Rhipsalis triangularis
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Rhipsalis triangularis is a species of plant in the genus Rhipsalis from the cactus family(Cactaceae).
description
Rhipsalis triangularis grows lithophytically with richly branched shoots of limited growth and reaches a length of 0.5 to 1 meter. The olive-green, three- to four-sided, rarely pentagonal, stiff, succulent shoots are pointed at their base. Its tip is trimmed. They are 6 to 24 centimeters long and 1 to 3 millimeters in diameter (rarely up to 5 millimeters). The areoles are covered with bristles.
The white flowers appear individually or up to three from an areole and reach a diameter of 15 to 25 millimeters. The spherical, bare fruits are magenta to pale pink in color.
Systematics and distribution
Rhipsalis triangularis is common in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro on the island mountains on the coast .
It was first described in 1937 by Erich Werdermann .
proof
literature
- João Marcelo Alvarenga Braga, Maria de Fátima Freitas: Neotypification of Rhipsalis triangularis Werderm. (Cactaceae), a critically endangered species from southeastern Brazil . In: Adansonia . Volume 32, Number 2, 2010, pp. 235-238, DOI: 10.5252 / a2010n2a4 .
- Alice Calventea, Daniela C. Zappi, Lúcia G. Lohmann: Taxonomic revision of the "winged-stem clade" (Rhipsalis, Cactaceae) . In: Alice Calventea: Molecular phylogeny, evolution and systematics of Rhipsalis (Cactaceae) . Dissertation, São Paulo 2010, pp. 149–150.
Individual evidence
- ^ E. Werdermann: New succulents from the Botanical Garden Berlin-Dahlem. II . In: Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis . Volume 42, 1937, p. 3, DOI: 10.1002 / fedr.19370420103 .