Coryphantha compacta
(Engelm.) Orcutt (1922)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Charles Russell Orcutt |
| 🌵 Basionym | Mammillaria compacta (1848) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | George Engelmann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Mem. Tour N. Mexico [Wislizenus]: 105 (1848) |
Latin compāctus ‘attached, joined together, confied, concealed’. For the “compact shape” of the plant body (Engelmann in William Trelease and Asa Gray, The Botanical Works of the Late George Engelmann: 52. 1887).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 25). Coryphantha compacta. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/coryphantha-compacta