Haageocereus melanostele

Haageocereus melanostele (Vaupel) W.T.Marshall ()
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🌵 BasionymCephalocereus melanostele ()
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Etymology

Greek melas (stem melan-) ‘dark’ + Greek stÄ“lÄ“ ‘column’. For the “very numerous black spines” (“aculei numerosissimi, nigri”), which Vaupel called one of the defining features of the species (“Cephalocereus melanostele is clearly characterized […] by the one large and the many small blackish spines”). Not, as Helmut Genaust (Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen. 3. Auflage. 1996) claims, for the color of the epidermis.


How to cite

Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Haageocereus melanostele. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/haageocereus-melanostele

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