Description:
Phylloclades flattened, 1.5 cm long and 1 cm wide, narrower than subsp. lutea, club-shaped. Flowers broadly funnel form, brilliant yellow, possibly self-sterile (data not yet sufficient).
Fruits spherical, greenish, angled.
Flowering period in northern hemisphere: March to May.
First description:
Campos-Porto, P. & Castellanos, A. (1941): Rodriguesia 5: 354, tab. 4, 5 (as Hariota epiphylloides var. bradei).
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Origin of the name:
epiphylloides refers to the Epiphyllum-like habitus.
lutea (lat.) = yellow, refers to the yellow flowers.
bradei honors the botanist Alexander Curt Brade (1881–1971), who also worked at the Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro.
Occurence:
Brazil (Rio do Janeiro), in areas above 800 m elevation.
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Synonyms:
- Hariota epiphylloides bradei Campos-Porto & Castellanos (1941)
- Pseudozygocactus epiphylloides bradei (Porto & Werdermann) Backeberg (1941)
- Hatiora epiphylloides bradei (Campos-Porto & Castellanos) P. V. Heath (1982)
- Hariota epiphylloides bradei (Campos-Porto & Castellanos) P. V. Heath (1992)
- Hatiora epiphylloides bradei (Campos-Porto & Castellanos) Barthlott & N. P. Taylor (1995)
- Rhipsalis epiphylloides bradei (Campos-Porto & Castellanos) Kimnach (1996)
- Pseudozygocactus epiphylloides bradei (Campos-Porto & Werdermann) Doweld (2002)
- Pseudozygocactus bradei (Campos-Porto & Werdermann) Guiggi (2019)
Photos:
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Schlumbergera lutea subsp. bradei, BG Bonn 13647, W. Rauh 64291, © W. Barthlott, Lotus-Salvinia.de -
Schlumbergera lutea subsp. bradei, BG Bonn 13647, W. Rauh 64291, © W. Barthlott, Lotus-Salvinia.de -
Schlumbergera lutea subsp. bradei, BG Bonn 13647, W. Rauh 64291, © W. Barthlott, Lotus-Salvinia.de -
Schlumbergera lutea subsp. bradei, BG Bonn 13647, W. Rauh 64291, © W. Barthlott, Lotus-Salvinia.de -
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Schlumbergera lutea subsp. bradei ‘Casa 1000’, photo: Ruud Tropper -
Schlumbergera lutea subsp. bradei ‘Casa 1000’, photo: Ruud Tropper -
Schlumbergera lutea subsp. bradei ‘Mottram Clone’, photo: Ruud Tropper -
Schlumbergera lutea subsp. bradei ‘Mottram Clone’, photo: Ruud Tropper -
Schlumbergera lutea subsp. bradei ‘Mottram Clone’, photo: Ruud Tropper -
Schlumbergera lutea subsp. bradei Bonn, photo: Ruud Tropper