🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
🌵 Basionym | Cereus subsect. Heliocereus (1905) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Alwin Berger |
🌵 Type | Heliocereus speciosus |
Greek hēlios ‘sun’ + Cereus, the name of a genus of columnar cacti and a designation for columnar cacti in general. For the diurnal flowers (in contrast to Selenicereus ‘moon cereus’ and Nyctocereus ‘night cereus’).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Heliocereus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/heliocereus