Brachycereus
Britton & Rose (1920)
Etymology
Brachycereus nesioticus. Image credit: Haplochromis / CC BY-SA 3.0
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
| 🌵 Type | Brachycereus thouarsii |
Greek brachys ‘short’ + Cereus, the name of a genus of columnar cacti and a designation for columnar cacti in general. For the low-growing habit.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 14). Brachycereus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/brachycereus