Pilosocereus aurisetus
(Werderm.) Byles & G.D.Rowley (1957)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Gordon RowleyRonald Byles |
🌵 Basionym | Pilocereus aurisetus (1933) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Erich Werdermann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Brasil. Säulenkakteen: 109 (1933) |
Latin aurum ‘gold’ + Latin saeta, sēta ‘bristle’. Werdermann: “in the flowering region [of the plant body] the spines grow out to 3-5 cm long, mostly straight bristles that are translucent golden yellow, flexible but prickly”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Sep 13). Pilosocereus aurisetus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/pilosocereus-aurisetus