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Accession Data

Rhipsalis pentaptera

Common Name: Rhipsalis pentaptera

Family: Cactaceae

Country of Origin: S. Brazil, Uruguay

Description: The species would have occurred as an epiphyte in lowland moist forest, but the area is now entirely an urban environment. The trees the species grows on, may be remnants of the former forest, but the species cannot be considered to be growing in a truly wild state.4

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 10-11

Accession #: 198502854

Accession Date: 1985-12-31

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3307

Quantity: 1

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: core eudicots

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Cactaceae

SubFamily: Cactoideae

Tribe: Rhipsalideae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References

  1. Rhipsalis.com. Last accessed on Friday, February 17, 2017.
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, February 17, 2017.
  3. Rhipsalis pentaptera at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Friday, February 17, 2017.
  4. Rhipsalis pentaptera at IUCN Redlist. Last accessed on Friday, February 17, 2017.
  5. Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Sadambio at Hungarian Wikipedia (Transferred from hu.wikipedia to Commons.) [CC BY-SA 2.5, GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.

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Rhipsalis pentaptera
Rhipsalis pentaptera