Echinocereus coccineus subsp. roemeri

Echinocereus coccineus subsp. roemeri (Muehlenpf.) W.Blum, Mich.Lange & Rutow (1998)

🌵 Author(s)	Jürgen Rutow Michael Lange Wolfgang Blum
🌵 Basionym	Cereus roemeri (1848)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Philipp August Friedrich Mühlenpfordt

Etymology

Not explained by Mühlenpfordt. Presumably named for German geologist in Texas Ferdinand von Roemer (1818-1891), who reported finding the species in his book Texas (304. 1849) (“A species of cactus [footnote: Cereus Roemeri Mühlenpfordt] different from any I had seen so far, was quite common in several places.”)