Rhipsalis teres

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rhipsalis teres, photographed by Cajá-manga — fig. b Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180704586

Rhipsalis teres, photographed by JG — fig. c JG, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202346808

Rhipsalis teres, photographed by Kahio Tiberio Mazon — fig. d Kahio Tiberio Mazon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 153712560

Rhipsalis teres, photographed by Tsssss — fig. e Tsssss, CC0 1.0 / obs. 90769628

Rhipsalis teres, photographed by Millie Basden — fig. f Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49432179

Rhipsalis teres, photographed by Chris Merck — fig. g Chris Merck, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197133935

Rhipsalis teres, photographed by Elizabeth Ging — fig. h Elizabeth Ging, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147592258

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Rhipsalis teres, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Brazil South	BZS	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Southeast	BZL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 256 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	9.7 °C	12.0 °C	17.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	25.6 °C	27.9 °C	29.6 °C
Annual rainfall	1,331 mm	1,654 mm	2,191 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	138 mm	288 mm	362 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 256 research-grade observations of Rhipsalis teres that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Cactus teres Vell.
Hariota conferta (Salm-Dyck) Kuntze
Hariota prismatica Lem.
Hariota teres (Vell.) Kuntze
Hatiora teres (Vell.) Kuntze
Rhipsalis alboareolata F.Ritter
Rhipsalis capilliformis F.A.C.Weber
Rhipsalis clavellina F.Ritter
Rhipsalis conferta Salm-Dyck
Rhipsalis floribunda Schott ex K.Schum.
Rhipsalis gracilis N.E.Br.
Rhipsalis heteroclada Britton & Rose
Rhipsalis maricaensis Scheinvar
Rhipsalis pendula Vöcht.
Rhipsalis prismatica (Lem.) Rümpler
Rhipsalis tetragona Wil ex F.A.C.Weber
Rhipsalis virgata F.A.C.Weber

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.