🌵 Author(s) | Joseph zu Salm-Dyck |
🌵 Type | Malacocarpus sellowii |
🌵 Replaced by | Wigginsia |
Greek malakos ‘soft’ + Greek karpos ‘fruit’. For the soft fruit.
Although this name was widely used in cactus literature, it is an illegitimate younger homonym of Malacocarpus Fisch. & C.A.Mey. (1843), a genus in the family Zygophyllaceae. The replacement name Wigginsia was published in 1964.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Malacocarpus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Malacocarpus