Epiphytic or saxicolous, small succulents with much branched, pendulous, succulent, terÂete, soft, glaucous-green stems about 3-6 mm in diam., bearing adventitious aerial roots coÂvered with a thin velamen; branches clustered, articulated; areoles scattered, woolly, bearing few to many soft bristles up to 4 mm long which usually disappear with age but the juvenile form may persist for many years. Flowers 1-2 per areole, sessile, small, green, self-fertile; hypanÂthium bulbous, bearing a few reduced areoles with 1-2 soft short bristles; sepaloid segments few, minute, triangular; petaloid segments 4—6, oblong, irregular, c. 3 mm long, somewhat fleshy, greenish-white. Stamens 5-10, placed on receptacle, short, with short opposing locules, apiculate. Ovary embedded in bulbous hypanthium; style short. Berry globose or oblong-globose, 5-10 mm in diam., translucent, greenish-white, white, pink or red, the petaloid segments semi-persistent, sap viscid; seeds obÂlong, irregularly and obtusely angled, 1 mm long, black or dark brown, shiny, reticulate. Fig. 48.
