Rapicactus
Buxb. & Oehme (1942)
Etymology
šµ Author(s) | Franz BuxbaumHanns Oehme |
šµ Type | Rapicactus subterraneus |
Latin rapum ‘turnip’ + Cactus. For the “potato-like tuber”. Not “from the Greek rhapis “a rod”” (Umberto Quattrocchi, CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names iv: 2272. 2000).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Nov 25). Rapicactus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Rapicactus