Rhipsalis baccifera ssp horrida

(Baker)Barth

◊ Bradleya 5:100 (1987)
◊◊ Rhipsalis horrida Baker - J. Linn. Soc. 21:347 (1884)
Hariota horrida (Baker)Küntze - Rev. Gen. Pl. 1:262 (1891)
Rhipsalis madagascarensis Web - Ind. Sem. Hort. Paris 1889; Rev. Hort. 64:424 (1892)
Rhipsalis suareziana Web - Rev. Hort. 64:425 (1892)
Rhipsalis pilosa KSch - Martius, Fl. Bras. 42: 300. 1890 nom. prov.
Rhipsalis suarensis Web - Dict. Hort. Bos. 1046 (1898)
Rhipsalis coralloides Rauh - in: Backeberg 6:3634 nom. inval. (1962)

- Stems 8-10 cm long, 4-6 mm diameter, dark green. Ribs 6-10, areoles close together, with little felt, 15-20 glassy hairs, 3-4 mm long. Flower 6-8 mm long, 5 mm diameter. Ovary round, green, with 2-3 areoles with hairs. Fruit white, somewhat translucent, 6 mm diameter, globose. Neotene form.

- Coastal forests of Madagascar, epiphytic and epilitic, up to 1500 m.

Epiphytes 12-46:34 (R. pilosa)
Backeberg 2:664
Bradleya 13:56", 64
Succulenta 82(1):3"; 97(1):40"
EPIG 3(2):21"; 15:64-68"
NCL 253"