Leuenbergeria lychnidiflora
(DC.) Lodé (2012)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joël Lodé |
| 🌵 Basionym | Pereskia lychnidiflora (1828) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Augustin Pyramus de Candolle |
| 🌵 Type of | Pereskia sect. Archipereskia |
Lychnis (stem Lychnid-) + Latin –flōrus ‘-flowered’. De Candolle: “[The color of the flowers] is of an apricot yellow tending to the color of fire, and approaching that of Lychnis grandiflora [= Silene banksia (Meerb.) Mabb., Caryophyllaceae], which the flower of our plant resembles quite well.”
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Leuenbergeria lychnidiflora. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/leuenbergeria-lychnidiflora