Echinocereus engelmannii var. chrysocentrus
(Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) Rümpler (1886)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Theodor Rümpler |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus engelmannii var. chrysocentrus (1856) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | George EngelmannJohn Milton Bigelow | 🌵 Basionym published in | Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 3: 283 (1856) |
Greek chrysos ‘gold’ + Greek kentron ‘spine, point, center’. For the “deep golden-yellow” central spines (Engelmann & Bigelow). Not “for the flower colour” (Eggli & Newton, Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 26). Echinocereus engelmannii var. chrysocentrus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/echinocereus-engelmannii-var-chrysocentrus