Brasilicereus phaeacanthus

Brasilicereus phaeacanthus (Gürke) Backeb. (1942)

🌵 Author(s)	Curt Backeberg
🌵 Basionym	Cereus phaeacanthus (1908)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Max Gürke
🌵 Type of	Brasilicereus

Etymology

Greek phaios ‘dusky, darkly glistening, grey, brown’ + Greek akantha ‘spine’. For the spine color. Gürke: “Characteristic [for the species] are the brown spines, which cover the body quite densely.”