Nyctocereus serpentinus
(Lag. & Rodr.) Britton & Rose (1909)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cactus serpentinus (1801) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | José Demetrio RodríguezMariano Lagasca y Segura |
| 🌵 Type of | Nyctocereus |
Latin serpentīnus ‘snake-like’. For the snake-like stems.
According to Weber the species was known in Baja California and Sonora as reina de la noche ‘queen of the night’. On the east coast of Mexico and on the Antilles this name was used for Cereus grandiflorus and Cereus nycticalus (now both Selenicereus grandiflorus) (Weber in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 1895: 319. 1895).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 13). Nyctocereus serpentinus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/nyctocereus-serpentinus