Rhipsalis platycarpa

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Rhipsalis platycarpa

Placement status: name of verified uncertain application
Rhipsalis platycarpa (Zucc.) Pfeiff., Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 131. 1837 sec. Barthlott & Taylor 1995, 1
  • ≡Cereus platycarpus Zucc. in Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 2: 736. 1837 syn. sec. Barthlott & Taylor 19951
  • ≡Epiphyllum platycarpum Zucc. in Cat. Cact. Monac. 1836 syn. sec. Barthlott & Taylor 19951
  • ≡Hariota platycarpa (Zucc.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 263. 1891 syn. sec. Barthlott & Taylor 19951
  • –Cereus platycarpus Zucc. ex C.F.Först., Handb. Cacteenk.: 452. 1846, nom. inval., syn. sec. Barthlott & Taylor 19951,2,3
  • 1. Barthlott, W. & Taylor, N. P. 1995: Notes towards a monograph of Rhipsalideae (Cactaceae). – Bradleya 13: 43-79. http://doi.org/10.25223/brad.n13.1995.a7, 2. later citation, no intention to publish, 3. Berendsohn, W. G. 2020: Revisions
  • –Epiphyllum platycarpum Zucc. ex Pfeiff., Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 131. 1837, nom. inval., syn. sec. Barthlott & Taylor 19956,4,5
  • 4. pro syn., 5. IPNI 2000+: International Plant Names Index. – The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Botanic Gardens – http://www.ipni.org: 8 sept 2020, 6. Barthlott, W. & Taylor, N. P. 1995: Notes towards a monograph of Rhipsalideae (Cactaceae). – Bradleya 13: 43-79. http://doi.org/10.25223/brad.n13.1995.a7

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Rhipsalis platycarpa (Zuccarini) Pfeiffer (Epiphyllum platycarpumZuccarini, Cat. Cact. Monac. 1836‘) quoted from Britton & Rose 1923, not seen by us and not cited by Zuccarini himself when publishing Cereus platycarpus Zucc. in Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München 2: 736. 1837, which clearly postdates R. platycarpa Pfeiffer Enum. Cact.: 131. 1837. Pfeiffer’s later illustration of a plant under this name (Abbild. Beschr. Cact. 1: tab. 17. 1840!) depicts a plant with peculiar flowers and cannot be satisfactory identified with any extant Rhipsalis known to the present authors. A herbarium specimen ex Herb. Kummer at Munich (M!) has been determined as R. platycarpa by Myron Kimnach, but was originally and correctly identified as R. pachyptera Pfeiffer by an unknown hand in 1838. This is a possible identity for this poorly typified name, which should not be allowed to displace R. pachyptera Pfeiffer, if, indeed, it was published earlier.A

Bibliography

A. Barthlott, W. & Taylor, N. P. 1995: Notes towards a monograph of Rhipsalideae (Cactaceae). – Bradleya 13: 43-79. http://doi.org/10.25223/brad.n13.1995.a7: 73