Rhipsalis burchellii
Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 255 1923
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Rhipsalis burchellii
Author
Britton & Rose
Chinese genus
丝苇属
Chinese name
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Description
Rhipsalis burchellii is a much-branched perennial epiphytic plant from Brazil forming whorls of thread-like, delicate hanging branches. The cream-coloured flowers, followed by pink berries, hang loosely at branches' tips.
Note
It is difficult to distinguish from the widespread and common orange-fruited Rhipsalis campos-portoana, if fruit colour details are lacking.
Flowers
Subterminal, campanulate, often numerous, 10 to 15 mm long whitish to creamy.
Stem
Cylindrical, smooth, very weak, slender, much branched and hardly succulent. The growth is determinate and the branching usually dichotomous. Primary branches to 60 cm long, terminal branch-segments 4 to 10 cm long, 1-2 mm in diameter, light green to purplish.
Fruits
Turbinate, pale pink, rose-coloured, brilliant reddish magenta or purplish magenta.
Areoles
Stem areoles, wooly, bristles absent. Apical composite flowering areoles at segments' tips.