Borzicactus icosagonus
(Kunth) Britton & Rose (1920)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cactus icosagonus (1823) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Carl Sigismund Kunth |
Greek eikosi ‘twenty’ + Greek –gōnos ‘-angled’. For the “almost 20” [sic] ribs (“sub-20-angulari”) observed by Kunth.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 15). Borzicactus icosagonus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/borzicactus-icosagonus