Cephalocereus euphorbioides
(Haw.) Britton & Rose (1920)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus euphorbioides (1819) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Adrian Hardy Haworth |
| 🌵 Type of | Rooksbya |
Euphorbia + Greek –oeidēs ‘resembling’. For the resemblance to Euphorbia. Haworth did not elaborate further, so it is not clear which species he had in mind.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 02). Cephalocereus euphorbioides. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cephalocereus-euphorbioides