Airampoa erectoclada

Airampoa erectoclada (Backeb.) Doweld (2002)

🌵 Author(s)	Alexander Doweld
🌵 Basionym	Opuntia erectoclada (1936)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Curt Backeberg
🌵 Basionym published in	Kaktus-ABC [Backeb. & Knuth]: 128, 411 (1936)

Etymology

Latin ērectus ‘erect, upright’ + Greek klados ‘branch’. Backeberg: “Low cushions; the older branches lie flat down; the younger ones emerge vertically from these” (“Lave Puder; de ældre Grene ligger fladt ned; de yngre fremkommer lodretstillede fra disse”); “forming low cushions; bearing old horizontal and young upright stem segments” (“Pulvinos humiles formans; articulis vetustis horizontalibus juveniles erectos ferentibus”).