Stenocereus pruinosus
(Otto ex Pfeiff.) Buxb. (1961)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Franz Buxbaum |
🌵 Basionym | Echinocactus pruinosus (1837) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Christoph Friedrich Otto |
🌵 Type of | Griseocereus |
Latin prŭīnōsus ‘covered with a waxy bloom’. For the “ash-grey” (Pfeiffer: “cinereus”) layer of wax covering the stems.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 May 30). Stenocereus pruinosus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/stenocereus-pruinosus