Austrocactus spiniflorus
(Phil.) F.Ritter (1963)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Friedrich Ritter |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia spiniflora (1859) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Rudolph Amandus Philippi | 🌵 Basionym published in | Linnaea 30(2): 211 (1859) |
Latin spīna ‘spine’ + Latin –flōrus ‘flowered’. for the spiny pericarpel of the flowers.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 12). Austrocactus spiniflorus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/austrocactus-spiniflorus