Neoraimondia macrostibas
(K.Schum.) Britton & Rose (1920)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Karl Schumann |
| 🌵 Basionym | Pilocereus macrostibas (1903) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Karl Schumann |
| 🌵 Type of | Neoraimondia |
Greek makros ‘long’ + Greek stibas ‘bed of straw, mattress’, translated by Schumann as German Polster ‘cushion’. For the felted short shoots on the stems, described by Schumann as “very large woolly cushions […] which gradually rise up and finally become remarkably thick, cylindrical or conical protrusions 5 cm in length and 3.5 cm in diameter”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Neoraimondia macrostibas. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/neoraimondia-macrostibas