Echinocereus rigidissimus
(Engelm.) Rose (1909)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson Rose |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus pectinatus var. rigidissimus (1856) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | George Engelmann |
Latin rigidissimus ‘very stiff’. For the “very rigid radial [spines]” (Engelmann) compared to Cereus pectinatus var. pectinatus (= Echinocereus pectinatus) and Cereus pectinatus var. armatus (= Echinocereus reichenbachii subsp. armatus).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Echinocereus rigidissimus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/echinocereus-rigidissimus