Rhipsalis baccifera(RPSBA)
Overview Code created in: 2010-03-19
- EPPO Code: RPSBA
- Preferred name: Rhipsalis baccifera
- Authority: (Mueller) Stearn
USA (Florida), Central America, Caribbean, South America. Also Indian subcontinent, tropical Africa, Madagascar. An epiphytic cactus, of which numerous subspecies have been described. R. baccifera is the only cactus to occur outside the Americas, and the suggestion has been made that it was introduced to the Old World relatively recently, by means which can only be conjectural
| Name | Authority |
|---|---|
| Cassytha baccifera | Solander |
| Rhipsalis bartlettii | Clover |
| Rhipsalis bermejensis | Ritter |
| Rhipsalis cassutha | Gaertner |
| Rhipsalis cassythoides | (de Candolle) G. Don |
| Rhipsalis comorensis | Weber |
| Rhipsalis coralloides | Rauh |
| Rhipsalis heptagona | Rauh & Backeberg |
| Rhipsalis madagascariensis | Weber |
| Rhipsalis minutiflora | Schumann |
| Rhipsalis pilosa | Schumann |
| Rhipsalis suareziana | Weber |
| Name | Language |
|---|---|
| mistletoe cactus | English |
| Binsenkaktus | German |
| Mistelkaktus | German |
| cassutha | French |
| rhipsalis | French |
| cactus vischio | Italian |
| cacto-macarrão | Portuguese |
| ripsális | Portuguese |
| korallkaktus | Swedish |
| ripusarisu | Japanese |
| リプサリス | Japanese |
| коралловый кактус | Russian |
| рипсалис | Russian |
Kingdom
Plantae (
1PLAK )
Phylum
Magnoliophyta (
1MAGP )
Class
Angiospermae (
1ANGC )
Category
Basal core eudicots (
1CEUD )
Order
Caryophyllales (
1CAFO )
Family
Cactaceae (
1CACF )
Genus
Rhipsalis (
1RPSG )
Species
Rhipsalis baccifera (
RPSBA )