Stenocereus stellatus
(Pfeiff.) Riccob. (1909)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Vincenzo Riccobono |
🌵 Basionym | Cereus stellatus (1836) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Louis Pfeiffer |
🌵 Type of | Stenocereus
Neolemaireocereus |
Latin stellatus ‘star-shaped’. Not explained by Pfeiffer. Presumably for the placement of the spines in the areoles.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Stenocereus stellatus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/stenocereus-stellatus