Pfeiffera boliviana

(Britt)Hunt

◊ Cact. Syst. Init. 14:18 (2002)
◊◊ Hariota boliviana Britt - Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 3:40 (1893)
Rhipsalis boliviana (Britt)Lauterb - in: Buchtien, Contrib. Flora Bolivia 1:145 (1910)
Lepismium bolivianum (Britt)Ewald - Epiphytes 7-28:79 nom. inval. (1983)
Lepismium bolivianum (Britt)Barth - Bradleya 9:89 (1991)

- More or less hanging, up to 80 cm and longer. Stems flat, at the base somewhat four-angled, first upright, later hanging, up to 30 cm or longer, 1,2-1,5 cm broad, irregularly crenated with intervals of 1,5-3 cm, midrib up to 3 mm thick, dark green. Areoles with whitish felt, depending on habitat. Sometimes 1-2 spines in the lower areoles. Flower 1,5 cm long, 0,7-1 cm broad, white, yellow when wilting, bell-shaped. Receptacle not sunken, 3-4 mm long, yellow-green to red-orange. Outer petals light yellow, reddish orange or purplish pink. Inner petals yellowish, tip with yellow, orange or purplish tinge. White forms are also known. Stamens light yellow, shorter than the pistil. Pistil white. Fruit 6.7 mm diameter, purplish pink. Seed 1,8x1x0,8 mm.

- Bolivia: La Paz (T: near Yungas), above 1800 m, Cochabamba above 1050 m, Santa Cruz. Flowering period april to june.

Cact. 4:240
Backeberg 2:672
CSJ(USA) 61(3):61"'; 61():99-103
Epiphytes 21:101-103 (1997)
KuaS 49(1):2"
Bradleya 13:46, 49"; 18:13"
NCL 232"
EPIG 2(1):1-2"; 9(4):140", 10(3):77|