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The genus Rhipsalis is in the family Cactaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Rhipsalis

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Rhipsalis aculeata F.A.C. Weber	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis agudoensis N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis baccifera (J.S.Muell.) Stearn	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis boliviana (Britton) Lauterb.	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis brevispina (Barthlott) Kimnach	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis burchellii Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis campos-portoana Loefgr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis cereoides (Backeb. & Voll) Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis cereuscula Haw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis clavata F.A.C.Weber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis crenata (Britton) Vaupel	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis crispata (Haw.) Pfeiff.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis dichotoma (DC.) Don	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis dissimilis (G.Lindb.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis elliptica G.Lindb. ex K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis floccosa Salm-Dyck ex Pfeiff.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis grandiflora Haw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis hoelleri Barthlott & N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis hookeriana (DC.) Don	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis hylaea F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis incachacana Cárdenas	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis juengeri Barthlott & N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis kirbergii Barthlott	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis lindbergiana K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis lorentziana Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis micrantha (Kunth) DC.	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis monacantha Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis neves-armondii K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis oblonga Loefgr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis occidentalis Barthlott & Rauh	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis olivifera N.P.Taylor & Zappi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis pachyptera Pfeiff.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis paradoxa (Salm-Dyck ex Pfeiff.) Salm-Dyck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis paranganiensis (Cárdenas) Kimnach	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis pilocarpa Loefgr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis platycarpa (Zucc.) Pfeiff.	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis pulchra Loefgr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis puniceodiscus G.Lindb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis rhombea (Salm-Dyck) Pfeiff.	Accepted		TRO
Rhipsalis teres (Vell.) Steud.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rhipsalis trigona Pfeiff.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 203 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Rhipsalis. Of these 41 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 21 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Rhipsalis. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 203 species names for the genus Rhipsalis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	41	20.2%
◕	Synonym	83	40.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	79	38.9%

All names

The status of the 224 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Rhipsalis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	50	22.3%
◕	Synonym	94	42.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	80	35.7%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 203 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Rhipsalis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	36	74	0	0	110	54.2%
	Low confidence	5	9	0	79	93	45.8%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Rhipsalis, are as follows: