Cephalocereus nudus
E.Y.Dawson (1948)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Elmer Yale Dawson |
Latin nÅ«dus ‘naked’. For the very few spines.
The species is known in Nahuatl simply as nochtli ‘cactus’ (David Yetman, The Great Cacti: Ethnobotany & Biogeography: 147-148. 2007 [as Neobuxbaumia squamulosa]).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Jul 06). Cephalocereus nudus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cephalocereus-nudus