Although cacti belonging to the tribe Rhipsalideae are quite distinct in appearance and habit from other cacti, as they grow on trees or rocks as epiphytes or lithophytes, for a long time there was confusion as to how the species should be placed into genera . " Hatiora gaertneri " was first described in 1884 by Josephy Rose transferred it to " Schlumbergera " as " S . gaertneri ".
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The large species generally live in well illuminated areas, occasionally epiphyte on trees of sparse foliage, more often as lithophytes, in " campos rupestres ", montane rocky areas that exist mostly in Rio and Minas Gerais States of Brazil, or over rocks in jungle's clearances . " B . tyrianthina " is exclusively lithophyte, " B . tetragona " and " B . wittigii " hardly ever do . " B . atropurpurea " is the only species found living terrestrially, but in rare occasions.
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The large species generally live in well illuminated areas, occasionally epiphyte on trees of sparse foliage, more often as lithophytes, in " campos rupestres ", montane rocky areas that exist mostly in Rio and Minas Gerais States of Brazil, or over rocks in jungle's clearances . " B . tyrianthina " is exclusively lithophyte, " B . tetragona " and " B . wittigii " hardly ever do . " B . atropurpurea " is the only species found living terrestrially, but in rare occasions.
