Anisocereus
Backeb. (1938)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Curt Backeberg | 🌵 Published in | Blätt. Kakteenf. 1938(6): [17; 8, 12, 24] (1938) |
🌵 Type | Anisocereus lepidanthus |
Greek anisos ‘unequal’ + Cereus, the name of a genus of columnar cacti and a designation for columnar cacti in general. Backeberg stressed that this genus was different from Pachycereus, Pilocereus, Cephalocereus and Monvillea.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Dec 20). Anisocereus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/anisocereus