Lepismium lorentzianum
(Gris)Barth
◊ Bradleya 5:99 (1987)
◊◊ Rhipsalis lorentziana Gris - Abh. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24:139
(1879)
- Up to 1.5 m long. Stems lanceolate, with blunt tips, toothed, 10-30 cm long, up to 3.5 cm broad, 1 mm thick, bright green. Areoles hardly felted, without spines. Flower 1 cm long, white, bell-shaped. Ovary four-angled, 7 mm long, 4 mm diameter, smooth, green. Filaments white. Pistil cream. Ovary four-angled, 6 mm long. Fruit somewhat four-angled, dark purple, 8 mm long, 4-5 mm diameter. Seed small, black, 1-3 in each berry.
- Argentina: Salta (T: bij Oran), Tucumán, Catamarca, Jujuy, Salta,
Bolivia: Santa Cruz, Tarija Chuquisaca. Epiphytic or epilitic, 500-2000 m.
Flowering at the end of the dry season.
Cact. 4:240
An. Mus. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires 32:477" (1925)
Backeberg 2:676
Epiphytes 6-22:38; 8-30:30
Bradleya 5:97-100; 13:46, 49"; 18:14|
EPIG 10(3):77|, 80, 82"
NCL 142"
◊ Bradleya 5:99 (1987)
◊◊ Rhipsalis lorentziana Gris - Abh. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24:139
(1879)
- Up to 1.5 m long. Stems lanceolate, with blunt tips, toothed, 10-30 cm long, up to 3.5 cm broad, 1 mm thick, bright green. Areoles hardly felted, without spines. Flower 1 cm long, white, bell-shaped. Ovary four-angled, 7 mm long, 4 mm diameter, smooth, green. Filaments white. Pistil cream. Ovary four-angled, 6 mm long. Fruit somewhat four-angled, dark purple, 8 mm long, 4-5 mm diameter. Seed small, black, 1-3 in each berry.
- Argentina: Salta (T: bij Oran), Tucumán, Catamarca, Jujuy, Salta,
Bolivia: Santa Cruz, Tarija Chuquisaca. Epiphytic or epilitic, 500-2000 m.
Flowering at the end of the dry season.
Cact. 4:240
An. Mus. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires 32:477" (1925)
Backeberg 2:676
Epiphytes 6-22:38; 8-30:30
Bradleya 5:97-100; 13:46, 49"; 18:14|
EPIG 10(3):77|, 80, 82"
NCL 142"