Loxanthocereus subgen. Anhaloniopsis

Loxanthocereus subgen. Anhaloniopsis Buxb. (1974)

🌵 Author(s)

Franz Buxbaum

Etymology

Anhalonium + Greek –opsis ‘looking like’. For the similarity in habit to Lophophora, which used to be called Anhalonium. Buxbaum referred to this subgenus both as Anhaloniopsis and Anhalonium in the same article.