Arrojadoa
Britton & Rose (1920)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
| 🌵 Type | Arrojadoa rhodantha |
Arrojado + Latin -a, the recommended suffix to form plant genus names from personal names that end with a vowel other than a (Rec. 60B.1(a), International Code of Nomenclature). Named for Dr. Miguel Arrojado Lisboa, superintendent of the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brazil railway company, “to whom Brazil is indebted for the extensive botanical exploration of the semiarid regions made a few years ago”.
See also Arrojadoöpsis.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 16). Arrojadoa. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Arrojadoa