Stenocereus montanus

Stenocereus montanus (Britton & Rose) Buxb. (1961)

🌵 Author(s)	Franz Buxbaum
🌵 Basionym	Lemaireocereus montanus (1920)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Joseph Nelson Rose Nathaniel Lord Britton
🌵 Basionym published in	Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 2: 97 (1920)

Etymology

Latin montānus ‘mountain-‘. Britton & Rose: “This species was found well up on the side of Alamos Mountain, associated with Lemaireocereus thurberi [= Stenocereus thurberi], but usually at a higher altitude than that at which that species is generally found.”