Tribularia

Tribularia M.Ocampo ()
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🌵 Published in Periódico de la Sociedad Filoiátrica de México 1: 68, 71 (1844)
🌵 Type not cited
Etymology

Not explained by Ocampo. Presumably Latin trĭbŭlus ‘thorn bush, thistle, caltrop’ + Latin –āria, a suffix used to create generic names (cf. Mammillaria, Opuntia subgen. Sphaeraria). For the spination. Ocampo called the genus cardonero in Spanish. Misspelled Fribularia on p. 68.

Tribularia Heist. (1748) is just a name.


How to cite

Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 11). Tribularia. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Tribularia