Accession Data

Rhipsalis baccifera ssp. horrida

Common Name: Mouse Tail Cactus

Family: Cactaceae

Country of Origin: Madagascar (endemic)

Description: R. baccifera has a range that includes much of the new world tropics, as well as the old world tropics from Africa east to Sri Lanka. It is the only cactus species found naturally outside of the Americas. Subspecies horrida is a polyploid form endemic to Madagascar.

There is evidence that Rhipsalis was not introduced into the palaeotropics by man, and that the palaeotropical evolutionary centre of the genus is Madagascar (Barthlott,1983)

It is worth mentioning that, in contrast to the diploid neotropical Rhipsalis species, the palaeotropical representatives of the genus are tetra- to octoploid.(Barthlott,1983)

Accession Data

Accession #: 200202465

Accession Date: 2002-10-23 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2203

Quantity: 2

Source: Matt Opel

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: core eudicots

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Cactaceae

SubFamily: Cactoideae

Tribe: Rhipsalideae

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Rhipsalis baccifera ssp. horrida