Coryphantha robustispina
(A.Schott ex Engelm.) Britton & Rose (1923)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
🌵 Basionym | Mammillaria robustispina (1856) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | George Engelmann |
Latin rōbustus ‘stout, firm, hard’ + Latin –spīnus ‘-spined’. For the “12 to 15 stout radial spines, the lower ones even stouter, often curved” (Engelmann: “aculeis radialibus 12-15 robustis inferioribus robustioribus saepe curvatis”).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Coryphantha robustispina. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/coryphantha-robustispina