Coryphantha pycnacantha

Coryphantha pycnacantha (Mart.) Lem. (1868)

🌵 Author(s)	Charles Lemaire
🌵 Basionym	Mammillaria pycnacantha (1832)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
🌵 Basionym published in	Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 16(1): 325, t. 17 (1832)

Etymology

Greek pyknos ‘close-packed, crowded’ + Greek akantha ‘spine’. For the dense spination. Martius: “Tubercles […] armed with a mass of spines […]” (“Mammillae […] armatae congerie aculeorum […]”).