+Astromyrtillocactus

+Astromyrtillocactus Mottram (2008)

🌵 Author(s)	Roy Mottram
🌵 Published in	Cact. World 26(3): 172-173 (2008)

Etymology

Graft-chimaeral genus for intergeneric graft-chimaeras of Astrophytum and Myrtillocactus.

The names of graft-chimaeral genera are formed "by combining part of the name of the genus of one of the component genera, connected by a vowel, with the full name of the other component genus (condensed formula), and prefixing the addition sign “+”" (article 24, International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants).

Based on Astrophytum asterias + Myrtillocactus geometrizans.