Cleistocactus serpens
F.A.C.Weber (1904)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Albert Weber |
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’.
van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, February 5). Cleistocactus serpens. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cleistocactus-serpens