Echinopsis strigosa

Echinopsis strigosa (Salm-Dyck) H.Friedrich & G.D.Rowley (1974)

🌵 Author(s)	Gordon Rowley Heimo Friedrich
🌵 Basionym	Cereus strigosus (1834)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Joseph zu Salm-Dyck
🌵 Basionym published in	Hort. Dyck.: 334-335 (1834)

Etymology

Latin strĭgōsus ‘thin’. For the thinner stems compared to Cereus multangularis (= Haageocereus pseudomelanostele). Salm-Dyck: “We have received this species, quite distinct from Cereus multangularis by the thinner stem […], from England under the name Cereus strigosus” (“Sub nomine C[erei] strigosi hanc speciem ex Anglia accepimus, a C[ereo] multangulari caule tenuiore […] satis diversam”).

Not “bristly-hairy (from Lat[in] ‘striga’, straight rigid short bristle-like appressed hair); […] for the spination of the stems” (Eggli & Newton, Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004).