Borzicactus sepium
(Kunth) Britton & Rose (1920)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Nathaniel Lord Britton |
🌵 Basionym | Cactus sepium (1823) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Carl Sigismund Kunth |
Latin sÄ“pÄum ‘of fences, of hedges’ (genitive plural of sÄ“pÄ“s ‘fence, hedge’). According to Kunth the plants were used to make hedges or fences (“Ad sepes construendas inservit”).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Borzicactus sepium. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/borzicactus-sepium