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Rhipsalis russellii; photograph (c) Marcio Santos Ferreira, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Marcio Santos Ferreira, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-09-17

Rhipsalis russellii Britton & Rose

Cactaceae · Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast +2 · listed by its genus as an epiphyte

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Summary

Rhipsalis russellii is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rocky areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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

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 ›

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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: 92 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 92 of the 92 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 West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South · 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-12.467, -41.45 · in the densest population, 50 records (54% 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 92 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 64 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 9 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 92 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 inside the densest 2° block of the 92 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: (c) Marcio Santos Ferreira, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Celso Henrique Varela Rios, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4).

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

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
Britton & Rose
Native to
Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast +1
Wild records
92 in range · 64 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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2292 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Rhipsalis russellii Britton & Rose (the item's: IPNI 219361-2, POWO 311610-2)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 23 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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