🌵 Author(s) | Louis Pfeiffer |
🌵 Type | Cephalocereus senilis |
Greek kephalē ‘head’ + Cereus, the name of a genus of columnar cacti and a designation for columnar cacti in general. For the cephalium. A renaming of Charles Lemaire’s suggested genus Cephalophorus (for Cereus senilis and Cereus columna-trajani) to avoid confusion with Cephalophora Cav. (1801) in the family Asteraceae. In 1839, Lemaire published the genus Pilocereus for the same two species.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 14). Cephalocereus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cephalocereus