Neoraimondia arequipensis
(Meyen) Backeb. (1937)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Curt Backeberg |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus arequipensis (1834) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen | 🌵 Basionym published in | Reise Erde 2: 41 (1834) |
Arequipa + Latin –ensis, geographical suffix. For the occurrence in Arequipa, Peru.
The species is known in Quechua as sapang haurni ‘lonely woman’ (David Yetman, The Great Cacti: Ethnobotany & Biogeography: 209. 2007).
#Species accepted in POWO