Coryphantha clavata
(Scheidw.) Backeb. (1942)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Curt Backeberg |
| 🌵 Basionym | Mammillaria clavata (1838) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Michael Scheidweiler | 🌵 Basionym published in | Bull. Acad. Brux. v: 494 (1838) |
Latin clāvātus ‘club-shaped’. For the shape of the plant body. Scheidweiler: “solitary club-shaped Mammillaria” (“M[ammillaria] simplex clavata”).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 15). Coryphantha clavata. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/coryphantha-clavata