🌵 Author(s) | Alexander Doweld | 🌵 Published in | Turczaninowia 5(1): 8 (2002) |
🌵 Type | Lagenosocereus luetzelburgii |
Greek lagēnos (stem lagēn-) ‘bottle, flask’ + Cereus, the name of a genus of columnar cacti and a designation for columnar cacti in general (or perhaps Greek lagēnos, Latin lăgēna (stem lagēn-) ‘bottle, flask’ + Latin –ōsus ‘full of’ + Cereus). Named “bottle cereus” in reference to “the peculiarly shaped stem” (Doweld). Based on Coleocephalocereus subgen. Lagenopsis Buxb. (Greek lagēnos + Greek –opsis ‘looking like’). The type species, Lagenosocereus luetzelburgii, was described by Friedrich Vaupel as “[l]ageniformis” (Z. Sukkulentenk. i. 57. 1923).
The form Lagenosocereus was perhaps chosen over the more obvious Lagenocereus to indicate the affinity with Pilosocereus.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 14). Lagenosocereus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/lagenosocereus