Echinocereus pentalophus
(DC.) Engelm. ex Haage (1860)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Friedrich Adolph Haage |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus pentalophus (1828) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Augustin Pyramus de Candolle | 🌵 Basionym published in | Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 17: 117 (1828) |
Greek penta ‘five’ + Greek lophē ‘crest’. For the number of ribs (De Candolle: “costis 5”). De Candolle compared Cereus cinerascens var. tenuior (= Echinocereus cinerascens) with this species: “It is close to pentalophus, but with 8 rather than 5 ribs” (“Accedit ad pentalophum, sed 8-nec 5-costatus”) (Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 17: 116. 1828).
The English name ladyfinger cactus refers to the slender stems (Ellen D. Schulz in Trans. Texas Acad. Sci. XIV: 90. 1930).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Jul 27). Echinocereus pentalophus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/echinocereus-pentalophus