Wigginsia
D.M.Porter (1964)
Etymology
| šµ Author(s) | Duncan MacNair Porter |
| šµ Type | Wigginsia sellowii |
| šµ Replacement of | Malacocarpus |
Wiggins + Latin -Äa, the recommended suffix to form plant genus names from personal names that end with a consonant (Rec. 60B.1(b), International Code of Nomenclature). Named for American botanist Ira Loren Wiggins (1899-1987). Porter: “It is a great pleasure to name the genus for Dr. Ira L. Wiggins, Scientific Director of the Belvedere Scientific Fund of San Francisco, California, USA, longtime student of the Cactaceae, and the person who awakened my interest in plant systematics while I was a student at Stanford University.”
This is a replacement name for Malacocarpus.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 16). Wigginsia. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Wigginsia