Lepismium lumbricoides f. aculeatum (F.A.C.Weber) Barthlott

Images | Description | Publications | Reduced Synonyms

La Banda, Santiago del Estero, Argentina

Argentina

Santa Fe, Argentina

Heidelberg Botanical Garden

Botanical illustrations and historical images

Lepismium lubricoides possibly form aculeatum, (illustration depicts Hummingbirds feeding on the nectar in Ecuador) — A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds, 1887

Lepismium lumbricoides, (syn. Rhipsalis lumbricoides, illustration likely depicts form aculeatum) — A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds, 1887

Description

The accepted name Lepismium lumbricoides f. aculeatum (F.A.C.Weber) Barthlott was published in Barthlott & N.P.Taylor in Bradleya 13: 48. 1995.

The geographic range is north-western Argentina found at elevations of unreported meters with an endangered status of least concern.

Lepismium lumbricoides f. aculeatum is classified in the subgenus Ophiorhipsalis.

Observed growing as an epiphyte or lithophyte. Overall habit is pendant, branches are monomorphic (single stem shape) and subacrotonic or mesotonic (stems form from the tips to middle of previous stems).

Stems are round and 8 to 10 angled, bristles are sparse to dense. Main stems are indeterminate (seasonal growth is various lengths), unreported x 0.3cm-0.4cm.

Flowers are campanulate or infundibuliform (bell or funnel shaped), 1.3cm-2.4cm x 1.5cm-2cm. Petals 7, sepal count is unreported. Inner petals are white, yellow or pink, outer petals are white, yellow, green, pink or purple. Stamen are white, from 20 to 60. Stigma lobes from 3 to 8. Flower ovary is cylindrical-angled, 0.4cm-0.7cm x 0.3cm-0.35cm.

Flowering position on the stem is lateral and the flower orientation in relation to the stem is oblique. It is unreported whether flowering repeats per areole. A maximum of 1 flowers were reported at a single areole. Areole position in the stems is superficial (flower ovary is visible on the surface of the stems during bud development). Trichomes or wool is absent or sparse at the areoles after flowering.

Unripe fruit is purple. Ripe fruit is globose or subglobose; maroon, purple or black, 0.6cm-0.8cm x 0.5cm-0.8cm.

Other notable features:
Resembles some Rhipsalis species when not in flower, easy to distinguish by the prominent triangular scales at the areoles. Form is described as being distinguishable from L. lumbricoides f. lumbricoides by the stiffer spines that radiate out from each areole and do not fall of with age. Spines were sometimes described as yellow.

Taxonomic treatment and description were derived from:

The referenced publications below
- published material was examined and consolidated
  - to determine minimum and maximum size ranges
  - to determine color variations and shapes
In rare cases
- if minimum and maximum values were unreported, authors examined their own materials
- if clearly observed colors were unreported, authors expanded the botanical descriptions

Lepismium lumbricoides f. aculeatum referenced publications

Title	Authors	Type	Journal	Year	Volume	Issue	Pages	Publisher
Epifytische cactussen, rhipsalis.eu. Accessed on: 15 Jan. 2025	Aat van Uijen	Website		2025
IPCN Chromosome Reports. Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed on: 18 Jan. 2025		Website		2025
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew \| Plants of the World Online. Accessed on: 15 Jan. 2025		Website		2025
The Caryophyllales Network 2015+ [continuously updated]: A global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Accessed on: 15 Jan. 2025		Website		2025
WFO The World Flora Online. Accessed on: 15 Jan. 2025		Website		2025
Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org – a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family	Nadja Korotkova, David Aquino, Salvador Arias, Urs Eggli, Alan Franck, Carlos Gómez-Hinostrosa, Pablo C. Guerrero, Héctor M. Hernández, Andreas Kohlbecker, Matias Köhler, Katja Luther, Lucas C. Majure, Andreas Müller, Detlev Metzing, Reto Nyffeler, Daniel Sánchez, Boris Schlumpberger, Walter G. Berendsohn	Journal Article	Willdenowia	2021	51	2	251 – 270	Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (BGBM)
Molecular cytogenetic insights into the evolution of the epiphytic genus Lepismium (Cactaceae) and related genera	Natalia C. Moreno, Leonardo D. Amarilla, María L. Las Peñas, Gabriel Bernardello	Journal Article	Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society	2015	177	2	263-277
Phylogeny and evolution of the epiphytic Rhipsalideae (Cactaceae)	Nadja Korotkova	Ph.D. Thesis		2012				Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
What does it take to resolve relationship and to identify species with molecular markers? An example from the epiphytic Rhipsalideae (Cactaceae)	Nadja Korotkova, Borsch T, Dietmar Quandt, Nigel P. Taylor, Müller K, Wilhelm Barthlott	Journal Article	American Journal of Botany	2011	98		1549-1572
The New Cactus Lexicon: Atlas of illustrations	David Hunt, Nigel P. Taylor, Graham Charles	Book		2006			104-120	DH Books
The New Cactus Lexicon: Text	David Hunt, Nigel P. Taylor, Graham Charles	Book		2006			138-139,142-143,253-257	DH Books
Lepismium lumbricoides (Lemaire) Barthlott	Andreas Hofacker	Journal Article	Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten	2005	56	12	XLVII-XLVIII
Blütenwunder aus den Yungas: Die Gattung Lepismium Pfeiffer	Ralf Bauer	Journal Article	Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten	1998	49	1	1-8
Die Namen der Gattungen und Arten epiphytischer Kakteen. Teil 1. Rhipsalideae	Ralf Bauer	Journal Article	EPIG	1996	8	2	47-51
Notes towards a Monograph of Rhipsalideae (Cactaceae)	Wilhelm Barthlott, Nigel P. Taylor	Journal Article	Bradleya	1995	13		43-79	British Cactus and Succulent Society
New names in Rhipsalidinae (Cactaceae)	Wilhelm Barthlott	Journal Article	Bradleya	1987	5		97-100
Chromosome numbers in the tribe Rhipsalinae (Cactaceae)	T. W. J. Gadella, E. Kliphuis, J. Naber	Journal Article	Botaniska notiser	1979	3		294
Iii. Unterfamilie Cereoideae K. Schum. 1898	Friedrich Ritter	Journal Article	Kakteen in Südamerika	1979	20	1	36-47
Cactus Lexicon	Curt Backeberg, Walther Haage	Book		1966			205,220-222,440-449, 647, 750	Blandford Press Ltd. (1966-1973)
Genera et Species Plantarum Argentinarum	A. Castellanos, H. V. Lelong	Book		1943	1		51
Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural "Bernardino Rivadavia"	Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"	Book		1923	32			Buenos Aires, Imprenta y Casa Editora Coni
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family	Nathaniel Lord Britton, Mary E. Eaton, N. J. Rose, Helen Adelaide Wood	Book		1923	4		208-247	Carnegie Institution of Washington
Gesamtbeschreibung der Kakteen (Monographia cactacearum)	Karl Schumann, Karl Hirscht	Book		1899			618-650	Neudamm [Dębno, Poland?], J. Neumann, 1899
Dictionnaire d'horticulture illustré	D. Bois	Book		1893			1045-1048	P. Klincksieck
Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina	Sociedad Científica Argentina, Congreso Científico Latino Americano, Congreso Científico Internacional Americano, Congreso Científico Internacional Americano (Buenos Aires - Argentina)	Book		1876	99		144-117	Sociedad Científica Argentina

Reduced Synonyms

Name	Reduced by	Published Date	Published In
Rhipsalis aculeata F.A.C.Weber	Barthlott & Taylor (1995)	1892	Rev. Hort. (Paris) 64: 428. 1892
Lepismium aculeatum (F.A.C.Weber) Barthlott	Barthlott & Taylor (1995)	1987	Bradleya 5: 99. 1987
Rhipsalis lumbricoides var. aculeata (F.A.C.Weber) Kimnach	Korotkova (2021)	1996	Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 68: 156. 1996
Ophiorhipsalis lumbricoides subsp. aculeata (F.A.C.Weber) Doweld	IPNI	2002	Sukkulenty 4(1-2): 39. 2002 ["2001"]