Praecereus saxicola
(Morong) N.P.Taylor (1997)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Nigel Taylor |
🌵 Basionym | Cereus saxicola (1893) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Thomas Morong | 🌵 Basionym published in | Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 7: 121 (1893) |
Latin saxum ‘rock’ + Latin –cŏla ‘inhabitor’. For the occurrence “among rocks” (Morong).
Morong spelled the epithet saxicolus, but epithets ending in –cŏla ‘inhabitor’ are indeclinable nouns in apposition.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 11). Praecereus saxicola. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/praecereus-saxicola