Rhipsalis teres forma heteroclada  (Britton & Rose) Barthlott and N P Taylor in Bradleya 13 (1995) 

heteroclada

heteroclada

heteroclada

 

R. teres forma heteroclada (copyright KAF, Kew 2006)

  • Plant - 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.

This form has stout, cylindrical stem-seg­ments and yellowish flowers. It is often found as a lithophyte enduring high light intensity. The name R. conferta Salm-Dyck (1850: 229) is probably the earliest published for this taxon.

 

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