Coleocephalocereus purpureus
(Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter (1979)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Friedrich Ritter |
| 🌵 Basionym | Buiningia purpurea (1973) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Albert BuiningArnold Brederoo | 🌵 Basionym published in | Kakteen And. Sukk. 24(6): 121 (1973) |
Latin purpÅrÄ•us ‘purple, dark red’. For the flower color. Buining & Brederoo: “Because of the striking color of the flowers, we named the plant purpurea“.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 13). Coleocephalocereus purpureus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/coleocephalocereus-purpureus