Rhipsalis flagelliformis

Rhipsalis flagelliformis N.P.Taylor & Zappi (2014)

🌵 Author(s)

Daniela Cristina Zappi Nigel Taylor

Etymology

Latin flăgellum ‘whip’, also ‘young branch or shoot, vine-shoot’ + Latin –formis ‘shaped’. For “its striking similarity in habit to the well known Mexican rat-tail cactus, Aporocactus, now Disocactus flagelliformis” (= Aporocactus flagelliformis).

Compare the pre-Linnaean name Opuntia minima flagelliformis Plum. for Rhipsalis baccifera (Mottram, Cactician 3: 51. 2013).