Coleocephalocereus buxbaumianus subsp. flavisetus

Coleocephalocereus buxbaumianus subsp. flavisetus (F.Ritter) N.P.Taylor & Zappi (1997)

🌵 Author(s)	Daniela Cristina Zappi Nigel Taylor
🌵 Basionym	Coleocephalocereus flavisetus (1979)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Friedrich Ritter
🌵 Basionym published in	Kakteen Südamerika 1: 127 (1979)

Etymology

Latin flāvus ‘yellow’ + Latin saeta, sēta ‘bristle’. For the golden-brown bristles on the cephalium. Ritter: “[E]ach ar[eole] with a thick white ball of wool 15-25 mm long and with very numerous soft, 4-6 cm long golden-brown bristles, which are so dense that they cover the wool; the bristles correspond entirely to the sp[ines] of the normal ribs, except that they are more numerous and longer and project more horizontally and are also thicker; they are so dense that the cephalia can be used directly as a brush”.