- Plant - growing in clumps, at first ascending,
often hanging from trees.
- Joints - flat and broad, oblong to elliptic, 3
to 20 cm. long, 2 to 7 cm. broad, the margin faintly to strongly
crenate.
- Flowers - generally 1, sometimes 2 or 3 at an areole,
12 mm. broad.
- Petals - usually 5, yellowish, widely spreading,
oblong, obtuse.
- Filaments - numerous, nearly red, white; style
white; stigma-lobes white, 5.
- Ovary - not sunken in the branch.
- Fruit - reddish, a little longer than broad, 6
to 7 mm. long.
- Type locality : Near Sorocaba, south of
Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
DISTRIBUTION Brazil (S & SE Minas Gerais, Rio
de Janeiro, San Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina): Atlantic forest,
montane cloud forest and seasonal forest by rivers, near sea level
to c. 2000m altitude.
R. elliptica (copyright KAF, Kew 2006)
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