Copiapoa desertorum
F.Ritter (1980)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Friedrich Ritter | 🌵 Published in | Kakteen Südamerika 3: 1060 (1980) |
Latin dēsertōrum ‘of the desert’ (genitive of Latin dēserti ‘wastelands, desert’). For the type locality, “east of Cifuncho [Taltal, Antofagasta, Chile] on the road to Las Breas in a desert”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Sep 12). Copiapoa desertorum. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/copiapoa-desertorum