Loxanthocereus hystrix

Loxanthocereus hystrix Rauh & Backeb. (1956)

🌵 Author(s)

Curt Backeberg Werner Rauh

Etymology

Greek hystrix ‘crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758)’. For the “coarse and wild spination” (Rauh, Beitr. Kennt. Peruan. Kakteenveg.: 120. 1958).

#Cacti named after animals #Species accepted in POWO