Aporocactus ×moennighoffii

Aporocactus ×moennighoffii ('Moenninghoffii') (D.F.Fisch.) Borg (1937)

🌵 Author(s)	John Borg
🌵 Basionym	Cereus ×moennighoffii (1905)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Daniel Ferdinand Fischer
🌵 Basionym published in	Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 15: 143 (1905)
🌵 Hybrid parents	Aporocactus flagelliformis Aporocactus martianus

Etymology

Named for German cactus enthusiast Franz Mönnighoff. Fischer: “I have chosen the name of the hybrid in honor of my dear friend, the excellent cactus grower Mr. City Treasurer Mönnighoff in Werl.” Fischer spelled the epithet Mönnighoffii. Borg misspelled it Moenninghoffii.