Rhipsalis

Accepted species 48 Documented here 9 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 48 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Rhipsalis baccifera (Sol. ex J.S.Muell.) Stearn 232 documented
Rhipsalis teres (Vell.) Steud. 27 documented
Rhipsalis floccosa Salm-Dyck ex Pfeiff. 14 documented
Rhipsalis lindbergiana K.Schum. 10 documented
Rhipsalis elliptica G.Lindb. ex K.Schum. 9 documented
Rhipsalis paradoxa (Salm-Dyck ex Pfeiff.) Salm-Dyck 9 documented
Rhipsalis mesembryanthemoides Haw. 6 documented
Rhipsalis pachyptera Pfeiff. 6 documented
Rhipsalis micrantha (Kunth) DC. 4 documented
Rhipsalis cereuscula Haw. 2 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis pacheco-leonis Loefgr. 1 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis trigonoides (Doweld) N.Korotkova 1 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis agudoensis N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis aurea M.F.Freitas & J.M.A.Braga 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis barthlottii Ralf Bauer & N.Korotkova 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis burchellii Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis campos-portoana Loefgr. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis cereoides (Backeb. & Voll) Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis clavata F.A.C.Weber 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis crispata (Haw.) Pfeiff. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis cuneata Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis dissimilis (G.Lindb.) K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis ewaldiana Barthlott & N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis flagelliformis N.P.Taylor & Zappi 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis goebeliana Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis grandiflora Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis hileiabaiana (N.P.Taylor & Barthlott) Barthlott & N.Korotkova 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis hoelleri Barthlott & N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis juengeri Barthlott & N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis neves-armondii K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis oblonga Loefgr. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis occidentalis Barthlott & Rauh 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis olivifera N.P.Taylor & Zappi 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis ormindoi N.P.Taylor & Zappi 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis pentaptera Pfeiff. ex A.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis pilocarpa Loefgr. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis pittieri Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis platycarpa (Zucc.) Pfeiff. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis pulchra Loefgr. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis puniceodiscus G.Lindb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis rhombea (Salm-Dyck) Pfeiff. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis riedeliana Regel 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis russellii Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis shaferi Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis spathulata Otto ex Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis sulcata F.A.C.Weber 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis triangularis Werderm. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhipsalis tucumanensis F.A.C.Weber 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.