Selenicereus tricae

Selenicereus tricae D.R.Hunt (1989)

🌵 Author(s)

David Hunt

Etymology

Hunt: “The Latin plural substantive tricae, chosen as specific epithet, is a tribute to the ambiguity of the plants. It has nothing to do with 3-angles or hair-spines, but translates (Oxford Latin Dictionary) as a ‘a tangle of difficulties, complications’ or, alternatively, ‘nonsense’ (cf. Aporocactus, below). It remains to be seen which of the permit­ ted translations will prove more apt!”