Cylindropuntia cholla

Cylindropuntia cholla (F.A.C.Weber) F.M.Knuth (1936)

🌵 Author(s)	Frederik Marcus Knuth
🌵 Basionym	Opuntia cholla (1895)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Albert Weber
🌵 Basionym published in	Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 1895: 320 (1895)

Etymology

Spanish cholla, according to Weber the vernacular name of the species in Baja California, Mexico. Compare Opuntia alcahes (= Cylindropuntia alcahes), which was published on the same page.

According to Helia Bravo Hollis (Cact. México 1: 169. 1978), in Northern Mexico, Cylindropuntia species with more or less thick stems are referred to as choya (= cholla), while species with thin stems are called tasajo (see Cylindropuntia tesajo), tasajillo or chirrioncillo.