Cereus lepidotus

Cereus lepidotus Salm-Dyck (1850)

🌵 Author(s)	Joseph zu Salm-Dyck
🌵 Published in	Cact. Hort. Dyck. ed. II: 207 (1850)

Etymology

Greek lepidōtos ‘scaly’. For the “scaly indumentum” on older stems (Salm-Dyck: “caule elato robustissimo glaucescenti-læteviride serius indumento lepidoto obducto”, “stem high, very robust, somewhat glaucous to bright green, later covered with a scaly indumentum”).