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 “for the fingerlike stem segments” (Eggli & Newton, Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004).

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