| 🌵 Author(s) | Rudolph Amandus Philippi |
| 🌵 Type | Eulychnia breviflora |
Greek eu ‘good, beautiful, true’ + Greek lychnia ‘lampstand’. For the columnar habit. Compare Cereus ‘wax-light, taper’
| [Eulýchnia] Helmut Genaust (1996): Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen, 3. Auflage |
| “Botanical Latin is essentially a written language, but the scientific names of plants often occur in speech. How they are pronounced really matters little provided they sound pleasant and are understood by all concerned.” |
| Cactoideae → Phyllocacteae → Corryocactinae |
| Cereoideae → Cereeae → Austrocereeae → Austrocereinae → Trichocerei → Nyctotrichocerei Curt Backeberg (1958): Die Cactaceae, Band 1 (provided for historical interest only) |
van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, February 5). Eulychnia. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/eulychnia