Selenicereus megalanthus

Selenicereus megalanthus (K.Schum. ex Vaupel) Moran (1953)

🌵 Author(s)	Reid Moran
🌵 Basionym	Cereus megalanthus (1913)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Friedrich Vaupel
🌵 Basionym published in	Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 284 (1913)

Etymology

Greek megas (stem megal-) ‘big’ + Greek anthos ‘flower’. For the size of the flowers, considered by Vaupel to be the biggest of all cactus species except Cereus urbanianus (= Selenicereus grandiflorus). The epithet has the same meaning as that of Selenicereus grandiflorus (Latin grandis ‘large’ + Latin –flōrus ‘flowered’).