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RHIPSALIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 926 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RHIPSALIS  , a genus of about 50 tropical

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species, mainly in Central and
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South
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America, but a few in tropical
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Africa and
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Madagascar . It is a very heterogeneous
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group, being fleshy-stemmed with a woody
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axis, the branches being angular, winged, flattened or cylindrical, and the
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flowers small,
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short-tubed, succeeded by small,
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round,
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pea-shaped berries . Rhipsalis Cassytha, when seen laden with its
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white berries, bears some resemblance to a
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branch of mistletoe . All the species are epiphytal in
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habit .

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