Peniocereus striatus
(Brandegee) Buxb. (1975)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Franz Buxbaum |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus striatus (1891) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Townshend Stith Brandegee | 🌵 Basionym published in | Zoe 2: 19 (1891) |
Latin strĭātus ‘striate’. For the striate stems. Brandegee: “The ribs are flat and broad and sometimes so close that apparently only a line of lighter green separates them. […] The natives call it “Pitahayita” from the general resemblance of its flowers and fruit to C. gummosus [= Stenocereus gummosus], called “Pitahaya.””
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 12). Peniocereus striatus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/peniocereus-striatus