Name appeared on pages 142-143 in:

 Britton & Rose 1920 The Cactaceae. Vol. 2.

16. Trichocereus candicans (Gillies).

Synonyms:
  Cereus candicans Gillies in Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 335. 1834.

Description:
   "Cespitose, forming large clumps often 1 to 3 meters in diameter; joints erect or spreading, 6 dm. long or less, 14 cm. in diameter or less, rounded at apex; ribs 9 to 11, low, rounded or obtuse; areoles large, white-felted when young, 2 to 3 cm. apart; spines subulate, brownish yellow, more or less mottled; radial spines 10 or more, more or less spreading, unequal, the longest 4 cm. long; central spines several, the longest nearly 10 cm. long; flowers very large, funnelform, very fragrant, showy, 15 cm. long; scales on flower-tube ovate, acuminate, bearing long hairs in their axils; inner perianth-segments white, oblong; fruit globose to ellipsoid, splitting on one side."

Type locality:
   Not cited, but doubtless Mendoza, Argentina.

Distribution:
   Mendoza and northern Argentina.