🌵 Author(s) | J. Labouret |
🌵 Type | not cited |
Greek keratistēs ‘one that butts’. Presumably for the thick, horn-like spines. Labouret (Monogr. Cact.: 246. 1853) listed Ceratistes verus hort. Paris and Ceratistes copiapensis as synonyms of Echinocactus ceratistes (= Eriosyce aurata) and Echinocactus copiapensis, respectively. According to Fred Kattermann (Eriosyce (Cactac.) gen. revis. & ampl.: 131. 1994) these names “may have been abbreviations [of Echinocactus ceratistes verus and Echinocactus ceratistes copiapensis] omitting the generic name Echinocactus“. Salm-Dyck corrected the epithet of Echinocactus ceratistes to ceratitis (Greek keratitis ‘horned’).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 May 31). Ceratistes. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Ceratistes