Cleistocactus serpens

Cleistocactus serpens F.A.C.Weber (1904)

🌵 Author(s)

Albert Weber

Etymology

Latin serpens ‘creeping, snake’. For the creeping stems. For the confused history of this name see Beat Ernst Leuenberger, The misunderstood Cleistocactus serpens, and C. longiserpens, a new name for a species of Cactaceae from Peru, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 124(1): 13-30 (2002).

See also Cleistocactus tenuiserpens (‘thin snake’), Cleistocactus crassiserpens (= Borzicactus crassiserpens) (‘thick snake’) and Cleistocactus longiserpens (= Borzicactus longiserpens) ‘long snake’.