Named for German agronomist and botanist Pierre Josef Braun (1959), who discovered the species together with Eddie Esteves Pereira, Leopoldo Horst and Thomas Schöbel.
Coleocephalocereus braunii and Pierre Braun at the type locality / Image credit: Esteves & Diers 1985
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 12). Coleocephalocereus braunii. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/coleocephalocereus-braunii