Epiphyllum phyllanthus
(L.) Haw. (1812)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Adrian Hardy Haworth |
🌵 Basionym | Cactus phyllanthus (1753) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Carl Linnaeus |
🌵 Type of | Epiphyllum |
Greek phyllon ‘leaf’ + Greek anthos ‘flower’. For the flowers that grow from what appear to be leaves, but are in fact phylloclades. Based on a pre-Linnaean name by Leonard Plukenet, Phyllanthos americana, sinuosis foliis longis ‘American phyllanthos with long winding leaves’. Phyllanthus L. (Phyllanthaceae) is a genus of plants with leaf-like phylloclades.
The epithet is a noun in apposition and should not be changed to phyllanthum.
The species is known in Quechua as p’aki p’aki or chhallu chhallu (Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua de Qosqo, Diccionario: Quechua-Español-Quechua. Segunda edicÃon. 2005).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Jul 19). Epiphyllum phyllanthus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/epiphyllum-phyllanthus