Epiphyllum anguligerum
('anguliger') (Lem.) H.P.Kelsey & Dayton (1942)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Harlan Page KelseyWilliam Adams Dayton |
🌵 Basionym | Phyllocactus anguliger (1851) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Charles Lemaire |
Latin angulus ‘angle, corner’ + Latin –ger ‘-bearing’. For the “toothed branches” (Lemaire: “Phyllocacte à rameaux dentés”).
The original epithet anguliger is correctable to anguligerum under article 60.1 of the International Code of Nomenclature.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 02). Epiphyllum anguligerum (‘anguliger’). Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/epiphyllum-anguligerum