Selenicereus hamatus

Selenicereus hamatus (Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose (1909)

🌵 Author(s)	Joseph Nelson Rose Nathaniel Lord Britton
🌵 Basionym	Cereus hamatus (1837)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Louis Pfeiffer
🌵 Basionym published in	Allg. Gartenzeitung (Otto & Dietrich) 5: 371 (1837)

Etymology

Latin hāmātus ‘hooked’. For the “hook-like” (Pfeiffer) tubercles on the ribs.

Britton & Rose misattributed the basionym to Scheidweiler.