Pilosocereus alensis

Pilosocereus alensis (F.A.C.Weber) Byles & G.D.Rowley (1957)

🌵 Author(s)	Gordon Rowley Ronald Byles
🌵 Basionym	Pilocereus alensis (1905)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Robert Roland-Gosselin
🌵 Basionym published in	Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 11(6): 508 (1905)

Etymology

Alo + Latin –ensis, geographical suffix. For the occurrence in the Sierra del Alo (also spelled Sierra (de) Lalo and Sierra del Halo), Jalisco, Mexico. Roland-Gosselin: “Species encountered by Mr. [Léon] Diguet in the Sierra del Alo (hence the name)”. Britton & Rose misspelled the epithet when they published the combination Cephalocereus aleusis.