SUBGENUS: astrophea
SUPERSECTION: pseudoastrophea
SECTION: botryastrophea
SERIES: botryastrophea
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:
South-eastern Venezuela, English Guiana and northern Brazil.
MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 12 °C
IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 15 °C
SYNONYMS: P. retrorsa Killip, Tacsonia spinescens Klotsch.
ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin securiclatus, shaped like an axe. Maybe for the deflected form stigmas or some other morphology(?).