Consolea spinosissima
(Mill.) Lem. (1862)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Charles Lemaire |
🌵 Basionym | Opuntia spinosissima (1768) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Philip Miller | 🌵 Basionym published in | Gard. Dict., ed. 8. n. 8 (1768) |
Latin spīnōsissĭmus ‘spiniest, very spiny’. Miller: “armed with the longest, narrowest, white spines”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 12). Consolea spinosissima. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/consolea-spinosissima