Browningia altissima
(F.Ritter) Buxb. (1965)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Franz Buxbaum |
| 🌵 Basionym | Gymnanthocereus altissimus (1959) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Friedrich Ritter | 🌵 Basionym published in | Cactus (Paris) no. 62: 119 (1959) |
Latin altisissĭmus ‘highest, tallest’. For the tall stems (up to 10 m).
van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, February 14). Browningia altissima. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/browningia-altissima