Astrophytum subgen. Stigmatodactylus
D.R.Hunt (2003)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | David Hunt |
Greek and Latin stigma ‘mark, spot’ + Greek daktylos ‘finger’. For the finger-like and white-dotted tubercles.
Hunt published this new name when he demoted the genus Digitostigma (Latin dÄgÄtus ‘finger’ + Greek and Latin stigma ‘mark, spot’) to subgeneric rank.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 02). Astrophytum subgen. Stigmatodactylus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/astrophytum-subgen-stigmatodactylus