Acanthocereus maculatus

Acanthocereus maculatus (Weing.) F.M.Knuth (1936)

🌵 Author(s)	Frederik Marcus Knuth
🌵 Basionym	Cereus maculatus (1933)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Wilhelm Weingart
🌵 Basionym published in	Kakteenkunde 1933: 14 (1933)

Etymology

Latin măcŭlātus ‘spotted’. For the mottled stems. Friedrich Ritter, who discovered the species (quoted by Weingart): “The coloring of the shoots is the same on all specimens, gray-greenish, mottled with dark green. Before the rainy season, the tissue of the shoots becomes very slack, the color turns yellow and red, the mottling remains, the plants suffer so much that one can hardly believe that the rainy season will revive them.” Weingart praised the ornamental value of the “colorful skin”.