Cumulopuntia leucophaea

Cumulopuntia leucophaea (Phil.) Hoxey (2009)

🌵 Author(s)	Paul Hoxey
🌵 Basionym	Opuntia leucophaea (1891)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Rudolph Amandus Philippi
🌵 Basionym published in	Anales Mus. Nac., Santiago de Chile 1891: 27 (1891)

Etymology

Greek leukophaios ‘whitish gray, ash-colored’. For the color of the stem segments and/or the spines, both described by Philippi as “whitish” (“albidis”). Compare Tephrocactus.