Haageocereus pseudomelanostele subsp. turbidus
(Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza (1998)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Carlos Ostolaza |
🌵 Basionym | Haageocereus turbidus (1957) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Curt BackebergWerner Rauh |
Latin turbÄdus ‘disordered’. Publication not seen. Presumably for the “jumbled up” (“durcheinanderragend”) central spines (Backeberg, Cactaceae 2: 1218. 1959). Eggli & Newton (Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004): “perhaps for the variable spination”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 14). Haageocereus pseudomelanostele subsp. turbidus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/haageocereus-pseudomelanostele-subsp-turbidus