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Rhipsalis mesembryanthoides Haw.

Cactaceae · Brazil Southeast · listed by its genus as an epiphyte

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Rhipsalis mesembryanthoides, photograph Pedro Alvaro Neves, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFRhipsalis mesembryanthoides, photograph Pedro Alvaro Neves, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFRhipsalis mesembryanthoides, photograph Pedro Alvaro Neves, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFRhipsalis mesembryanthoides, photograph Pedro Alvaro Neves, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFRhipsalis mesembryanthoides, photograph fmunoz, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFRhipsalis mesembryanthoides, photograph fmunoz, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF 24 photographs ›

About the genus · Rhipsalis

Rhipsalis is a genus of epiphytic flowering plants in the cactus family, typically known as mistletoe cacti. They are found in parts of Central America, the Caribbean and northern regions of South America. One species, Rhipsalis baccifera also inhabits locations in Africa and Asia, and is the only cactus species naturally occurring in the Old World. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Rhipsalis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an epiphyte, listed under the genus Rhipsalis in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent epiphyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Rhipsalis in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent epiphyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 13 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 13 of the 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-22.843, -43.229 · in the densest population, 13 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“succulent epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 13 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 13 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Pedro Alvaro Neves, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (4); fmunoz, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Other Rhipsalis 34 in the reference

Rhipsalis baccifera Rhipsalis baccifera Mistletoe cactus Photo: CC BY, Claudio Cantú MuñizRhipsalis burchellii Rhipsalis burchellii Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Jefferson FerreiraRhipsalis campos-portoana Rhipsalis campos-portoana Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, salchuRhipsalis cereoides Rhipsalis cereoides Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizRhipsalis cereuscula Rhipsalis cereuscula Rice cactus Photo: CC BY, William StephensRhipsalis clavata Rhipsalis clavata Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Gabriel Jovêncio RibeiroRhipsalis crispata Rhipsalis crispata Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizRhipsalis cuneata Rhipsalis cuneata Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizRhipsalis dissimilis Rhipsalis dissimilis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Pedro Alvaro NevesRhipsalis elliptica Rhipsalis elliptica Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Yoannis DomínguezRhipsalis ewaldiana Rhipsalis ewaldiana Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, SadambioRhipsalis floccosa Rhipsalis floccosa Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Gabriel Fernandes all 35 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Hariota mesembryanthoides. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidata

The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
Haw.
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
13 in range · 13 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2213 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Rhipsalis mesembryanthoides Haw. (the item's: IPNI 138327-1, POWO 306320-2)
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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