Astrophytum caput-medusae

Astrophytum caput-medusae (Velazco & Nevárez) D.R.Hunt (2003)

🌵 Author(s)	David Hunt
🌵 Basionym	Digitostigma caput-medusae (2002)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Carlos Gerardo Velazco Manuel Nevárez
🌵 Type of	Digitostigma

Etymology

Latin căpŭt Mĕdūsae ‘Medusa’s head’. For the very long and slender tubercles that give the plant the appearance of the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa of Greek mythology. Compare Mammillaria caput-medusae (Cactaceae), Euphorbia caput-medusae (Euphorbiaceae), Tillandsia caput-medusae (Bromeliaceae) etc.

Astrophyton caput-medusae (Linnaeus, 1758) (= Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae) is a species of echinoderms.