Deamia testudo
(Karw. ex Zucc.) Britton & Rose (1920)
Etymology
Deamia testudo. Image credit: Britton & Rose, Cactaceae 2
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus testudo (1838) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini |
| 🌵 Type of | Deamia |
Latin testÅ«do ‘tortoise’. For the segmented, climbing stems, likened by Zuccarini to “a procession of dark green tortoises walking close behind one another”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Deamia testudo. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/deamia-testudo