Selenicereus inermis
(Otto ex Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose (1920)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
🌵 Basionym | Cereus inermis (1837) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Louis Pfeiffer | 🌵 Basionym published in | Enum. Diagn. Cact. 116. (1837) |
Latin Änermis ‘unarmed, spineless’. For the “wholly spineless adult branches” (Pfeiffer: “ramis […] adultis omnino inermibus”).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Selenicereus inermis. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/selenicereus-inermis