Cephalocereus columna-trajani
('columna Trajani') (Karw. ex Pfeiff.) K.Schum. (1897)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Karl Schumann | 🌵 Published in | Gesamtbeschr. Kakt. 198 (1897) |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus columna-trajani (1837) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Louis Pfeiffer | 🌵 Basionym published in | Enum. Diagn. Cact. 76 (1837) |
Latin cŏlumna Trājāni ‘Trajan’s column’, a Roman triumphal column in Rome. For the very large columnar growth habit. The epithet is sometimes misinterpreted as “columna var. trajani“.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Cephalocereus columna-trajani. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cephalocereus-columna-trajani