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Tacinga funalis

Botanic Family

Cactaceae

Author

Britton & Rose

Common Names

• Rabo-de-rato
• Rabo-de-gato
• Cipó-de-espinho
• Quipá-voador
• Trança-perna (Brazil)

Geographical Habitats

• Bahia-Brazil

Natural Habitats

• Thorny scrubland

Flowering Times

• Aug
• Sep

Fruiting Times

Spineless long scrambling or climbing cactus with 80mm long greenish or purple flowers, terminal flowers opening at evening or at night, fruit oblong to 50mm long, bearing aereoles not spines, cylindrical branches faintly ribbed, sometime spines on young shoots

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• NYBG
• FB
• net
• Britton & Rose