Micranthocereus dolichospermaticus

Micranthocereus dolichospermaticus (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter (1979)

🌵 Author(s)	Friedrich Ritter
🌵 Basionym	Austrocephalocereus dolichospermaticus (1974)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Albert Buining Arnold Brederoo
🌵 Basionym published in	Kakteen And. Sukk. 25(4): 76 (1974)
🌵 Type of	Siccobaccatus

Etymology

Greek dolichos ‘long’ + Greek spermatikos ‘seminal, -seeded’. For the “oblong boat-shaped” (“oblonge lintriforme”, “länglich bootförmig”) seeds, which differentiated the species from other Austrocephalocereus species (Buining & Brederoo).