Rhipsalis subgen. Epallagogonium

Rhipsalis subgen. Epallagogonium (K.Schum.) K.Schum. (1898)

🌵 Author(s)	Karl Schumann
🌵 Published in	Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 615 (1898)
🌵 Basionym	Rhipsalis sect. Epallagogonium (1894)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Karl Schumann
🌵 Basionym published in	Nat. Pflanzenfam. [Engler & Prantl] 3(6a): 198 (1894)
🌵 Type	Rhipsalis paradoxa

Etymology

Greek epallagē ‘fitting into one another’ (from the verb epallassein ‘change over, alternate, interlock’) + Greek gо̄nia ‘angle’. For the discontinuous ribs. The only included species is Rhipsalis paradoxa. Sometimes misspelled Epallogogonium or Epallagonium.