Copiapoa echinoides

Copiapoa echinoides (Lem. ex Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose (1922)

🌵 Author(s)	Joseph Nelson Rose Nathaniel Lord Britton
🌵 Published in	Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 3: 88 (1922)
🌵 Basionym	Echinocactus echinoides
🌵 Basionym published in	Allg. Gartenzeitung (Otto & Dietrich) 13: 386 (1845)

Etymology

Greek echinos ‘hedgehog’ + Greek –oeidēs ‘resembling’. Not explained by Salm-Dyck. Presumably for the spination. Echinocactus echinoides means “hedgehog-like hedgehog cactus”.