Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica
(Lam.) Backeb. (1942)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Curt Backeberg |
🌵 Basionym | Cactus cylindricus (1785) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck |
Latin cylindrÄcus ‘cylindrical’. For the cylindrical stems. Lamarck: “It is easy to distinguish this species from all the others because it is neither compressed like the Raquettes [Opuntia] nor angular like the Cierges [Cereus].”
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 29). Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/austrocylindropuntia-cylindrica