Kimnachia ramulosa

Kimnachia ramulosa
(SD)Arias&Kor


◊ Phytotaxa 327(1):30 (2017)
◊◊ Cereus ramulosus SD - Hort. Dyck. 340 (1834)
Rhipsalis ramulosa (SD)Pfeiff - Enum. Cact. 130 (1837)
Hariota ramulosa (SD)Lem - Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 75 (1839)
Rhipsalis coriacea Polakowsky - Linnaea 41:562 (1877)
Hariota coriacea (Pol)Küntze - Rev. Gen. Pl. 1:262 (1891)
Rhipsalis purpusii Wgt - Monatschr. Kakteenk. 28:78 (1918)
Rhipsalis leiophloea Vpl - Zeitschr. Sukkulentenk. 1:20 (1923)
Disocactus ramulosus (SD)Kimn - CSJ(USA) 33:13' (1961)
Pseudorhipsalis ramulosa (SD)Barth - Bradleya 9:90 (1991)

- Base of primary stems cylindric, up to 70 cm long, upper part flat, 2.5 cm broad, often with reddish tinge. Base of secundary stems cylindric, 1-8 cm long, 1.5 cm br, lanceolate to lineair, bluntly crenated. Areoles 1-2.5 cm apart, naked. Flower 0.7-1.2 cm long, yellowish white with pink or green hue. Receptacle 4-5 mm long, ±3 mm diameter, pink or green. Petals blunt, 3-6 mm long, cream. Stamens cream, anthers red. Pistil cream. Fruit round, 4-8 mm long and wide, white. Seed oval to kindney-shaped, 1.4x1 mm, black.

- Mexico: Chiapas, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz; Bolivia: prov. Carrasco en Ballivián; Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Haiti, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, 500-2200. Flowering time March.

Cact. 4:240, 241', plate 32 (Rhipsalis coriacea)
Frst&Rmpl 879
Backeberg 2:672, 673", 674"
CSJ(USA) 33:11-16
Bravo 1:518, 523, 524", 525"
KuaS 20(11):210 (R. purpusii)
KuaS 27(3):50"
Succulenta 47(4):56" (R. purpusii) Epiphytes 5-20:67'
Icones. Pl. Succ. 33:11-16" (1961)
Cast. Cactaceas amazonicas (1967)
Haseltonia 1:126
Bradleya 18:8
EPIG 10(2):45"; 12(3):83
NCL 243"