🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
🌵 Basionym | Cereus subgen. Lophocereus (1905) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Alwin Berger |
🌵 Type | Lophocereus schottii |
Greek lophē ‘crest’ + Cereus, the name of a genus of columnar cacti and a designation for columnar cacti in general. For the “long stiff setulose bristles” (Berger).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 14). Lophocereus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Lophocereus