Stenocereus griseus
(Haw.) Buxb. (1961)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Franz Buxbaum |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus griseus (1812) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Adrian Hardy Haworth | 🌵 Basionym published in | Syn. Pl. Succ. 182 (1812) |
Latin grĭsĕus ‘grey’. For the color of the spines. Haworth’s English name for the species was “Grey-spined [Cereus]”. The epithet contrasts with that of the “Tawny-spined [Cereus]” Cereus fulvispinosus (Latin fulvus ‘tawny’ + Latin spīnōsus ‘full of spines’) (= Pilosocereus armatus) on the next page.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 05). Stenocereus griseus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/stenocereus-griseus