Cephalocereus scoparius
(Poselg.) Britton & Rose (1909)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
| 🌵 Basionym | Pilocereus scoparius (1853) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Heinrich Poselger | 🌵 Basionym published in | Allg. Gartenzeitung (Otto & Dietrich) 21: 126 (1853) |
Latin scōpārĭus ‘broom-like’. For the bristly spines (Poselger: “aculeis […] setiformibus”, “sämmtliche Stacheln […] borstenförmig”).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Jul 25). Cephalocereus scoparius. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cephalocereus-scoparius