Borzicactus fieldianus subsp. tessellatus
(Akers & Buining) G.J.Charles (2012)
Etymology
Image credit: Akers & Buining
| 🌵 Author(s) | Graham Charles |
| 🌵 Basionym | Borzicactus tessellatus (1954) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Albert BuiningJohn Akers | 🌵 Basionym published in | Succulenta (Netherlands) 6: 81 (1954) |
Latin tessellātus ‘checkered, tessellated’. For the tessellated stem surface. Akers & Buining: “costae 5-6, in gibbos tessellatos sexangulares supra sulcatos divisae”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 17). Borzicactus fieldianus subsp. tessellatus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/borzicactus-fieldianus-subsp-tessellatus