Rhipsalis dissimilis

Description

Rhipsalis dissimilis is a plant species in the genus Rhipsalis fromthe cactus family (Cactaceae). Rhipsalis dissimilis grows epiphytic or lithophytic with open, strictly acrotonically branched, initially upright and later overhanging very variable shoots of unlimited growth. There are three to nine low ribs present. Sometimes the shoots are almost circular or rarely three to five-edged. They have a diameter of 4 to 10 millimeters and are 5 to 15 centimeters long. The light yellow to yellow flowers appear laterally from sunken woolly areoles and reach a diameter of 1 to 1.5 centimeters. The almost spherical fruits are red and have a white base. Rhipsalis dissimilis is common in the Brazilian states of Paraná and São Paulo at altitudes of 800 to 1100 meters. The first description as Lepismium dissimile was in 1890 by Gustaf Anders Lindberg. Karl Moritz Schumann placed the species in the genus Rhipsalis in the same year.