Rhipsalis teres forma prismatica (Lemaire) Barthlott & N P Taylor in Bradleya 13 (1995).

R. prismatica, KAF


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Desc from B&R 1923

Plant - very much branched, prostrate;
Lower branches -  elongated and terete;
Upper branches -  short and some­what angled;
Areoles -  more or less setose;
Flowers - white petals usually 5, obtuse;
Fruit -  small, pinkish to white, globose. This form has somewhat angular or swollen and bristly ultimate stem segments. It is particularly common near the coast (terrestrial in sand of the restinga, also epilithic and epiphytic) and there takes on the appearance of R. cereuscula, with which it has been in part confused by Scheinvar (1985: 262).

Note from Bradleya 13
This form has somewhat angular or swollen and bristly ultimate stem-segments. It is particularly common near the coast (terrestrial in sand of the restinga, also epilithic and epiphytic) and there takes on the appearance of R. cereuscula, with which it has been in part confused by Scheinvar (1985: 262).

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