🌵 Author(s) | Frederik Marcus Knuth | 🌵 Published in | Kaktus-ABC [Backeb. & Knuth]: 115 (1936) |
🌵 Type | Corynopuntia clavata |
Greek korynē ‘club’ + Opuntia. For the club-shaped cladodes and the affinity to Opuntia. Compare the name of the type species, Corynopuntia clavata (Latin clāvātus ‘club-shaped’).
Originally published at the rank of subgenus under the name Opuntia subgen. Engelmannia.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Dec 01). Corynopuntia. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Corynopuntia