Cumulopuntia boliviana subsp. dactylifera

Cumulopuntia boliviana subsp. dactylifera (Vaupel) D.R.Hunt (2002)

🌵 Author(s)	David Hunt
🌵 Basionym	Opuntia dactylifera (1913)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Friedrich Vaupel
🌵 Basionym published in	Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 50(2-3, Beibl. 111): 29 (1913)

Etymology

Greek daktylos ‘date (fruit of the date palm Phoenix dactylifera)’ + Latin –fer (feminine –fĕra) ‘carrying’. Vaupel: “The most peculiar feature of the plant is the pronounced date-like shape of the fruit.” Not, as Urs Eggli and Leonard E. Newton (Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004) claim, “for the fingerlike stem segments” (the primary meaning of Greek daktylos is ‘finger’).

According to Vaupel the plant was known in southern Peru as hairampu (compare Airampoa).

#Subspecies accepted in POWO