Cassytha
Mill., nom. illeg., nom. inval. (1768)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Philip Miller |
🌵 Type | Cassytha filiformis |
Arabic kušūṯ ‘dodder (Cuscuta L.), love vine (Cassytha filiformis L.)’. Miller misidentified Rhipsalis baccifera as Linnaeus’s Cassytha filiformis, a parasitic plant in the family Lauraceae, and described it under that name.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Cassytha. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Cassytha