Pfeiffera Salm-Dyck sec. Korotkova & al. 2010

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Pfeiffera Salm-Dyck sec. Korotkova & al. 2010

Pfeiffera Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck., ed. 1844: 40. 1845 wfo-4000029014
      Type: Pfeiffera cereiformis Salm-Dyck, nom. illeg.
  • =Rhipsalis subg. Acanthorhipsalis K.Schum., Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 615. 1897–1899 syn. sec. Korotkova & al. 20101 wfo-3500004037
  • ≡Acanthorhipsalis (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose, Cactaceae 4: 211. 1923 syn. sec. Korotkova & al. 20101 wfo-4000000146
      • Type: Rhipsalis monacantha Griseb.
  • 1. Korotkova, N., Zabel, L., Quandt, D. & Barthlott, W. 2010: A phylogenetic analysis of Pfeiffera and the reinstatement of Lymanbensonia as an independently evolved lineage of epiphytic Cactaceae within a new tribe Lymanbensonieae. – Willdenowia 40: 151-172. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.40.40201
  • =Bolivihanburya Guiggi, Iconogr. Cat. Cact. Cult. Hanbury: 28. 2016 syn. sec. Korotkova 20212 wfo-4000042735
  • 2. Korotkova, N. 2021: Revisions of Deamia, Disocactus, Epiphyllum, Hatiora, Kimnachia, Lepismium, Leuenbergeria, Lymanbensonia, Pereskia, Pfeiffera, Pseudorhipsalis, Rhipsalidopsis, Rhipsalis, Schlumbergera, Selenicereus, Strophocactus, Weberocereus, and various other names. In: Korotkova N. & al., Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org – a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. – Willdenowia 51: 250-270. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.51.51208

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Notes

The circumscription of Pfeiffera has undergone several radical changes in the past, and until the early 1980s, it was treated as monotypic genus with P. ianthothele (Monv.) F. A. C. Weber. Kimnach (1983) subsumed Pfeiffera under Rhipsalis, while Barthlott (1987), Barthlott & Taylor (1995) and Anderson (2001, 2005) synonymized it with Lepismium. In the molecular phylogeny of Nyffeler (2002), P. ianthothele unexpectedly grouped together with two traditional Lepismium species, and widely distant from either Rhipsalis or Lepismium. Hunt (2006) broadened the concept of Pfeiffera to include nine species. This circumscription of Pfeiffera was evaluated and clarified Korotkova & al. (2010) who rejected the circumscription of Hunt (2006) that also included the species now segregated as Lymanbensonia (see also note under Lymanbensonia).A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I

Taxon standing

Category A: The genus is monophyletic based on a complete or very comprehensive phylogenetic study, and a phylogeny-based taxonomic synopsis was published.H

Acknowledgments

Compiled by Nadja Korotkova

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