🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
🌵 Type | Sclerocactus polyancistrus |
Greek sklēros ‘hard, cruel, obstinate’ + Cactus. For “the formidable hooked spines which hold on in a most aggravating manner”. Compare Ferocactus, a rhyming name with more or less the same meaning published in the same work.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 14). Sclerocactus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Sclerocactus