Echinocereus reichenbachii subsp. armatus
(Poselg.) N.P.Taylor (1985)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Nigel Taylor |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus pectinatus var. armatus (1853) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Heinrich Poselger | 🌵 Basionym published in | Allg. Gartenzeitung (Otto & Dietrich) 21: 134 (1853) |
Latin armātus ‘armed’. For the long central spines compared to Cereus pectinatus var. pectinatus (= Echinocereus pectinatus subsp. pectinatus). Poselger: “In this [variety], the otherwise small, hardly visible central spines are unusually strongly developed”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Sep 21). Echinocereus reichenbachii subsp. armatus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/echinocereus-reichenbachii-subsp-armatus