Austrocylindropuntia floccosa
(Salm-Dyck) F.Ritter (1981)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Friedrich Ritter |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia floccosa (1845) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Joseph zu Salm-Dyck |
| 🌵 Type of | Andinopuntia |
Latin floccōsus ‘with tufts of soft hairs’. For the woolly glochids.
The species is known in Quechua as inka roq’a, waraq’o or roq’a (Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua de Qosqo, Diccionario: Quechua-Español-Quechua. Segunda edicíon. 2005).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Jul 19). Austrocylindropuntia floccosa. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/austrocylindropuntia-floccosa