Borzicactus plagiostoma

Borzicactus plagiostoma (Vaupel) Britton & Rose (1920)

🌵 Author(s)	Joseph Nelson Rose Nathaniel Lord Britton
🌵 Basionym	Cereus plagiostoma (1913)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Friedrich Vaupel
🌵 Basionym published in	Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 50(2-3, Beibl. 111): 20 (1913)

Etymology

Greek plagios ‘placed sideways, oblique’ + Greek stoma ‘mouth’. Not explained by Vaupel. Presumably for the flowers, described by him as “somewhat obliquely zygomorphic” (“etwas schräg zygomorph”). The epithet is a noun in apposition and should not be changed to plagiostomus.