Cylindropuntia imbricata subsp. argentea

Cylindropuntia imbricata subsp. argentea (M.S.Anthony) U.Guzmán (2003)

🌵 Author(s)	Leonardo Ulises Guzmán Cruz
🌵 Basionym	Opuntia imbricata var. argentea (1956)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Margery Stuart Anthony
🌵 Basionym published in	Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55(1): 236 (1956)

Etymology

Latin argentĕus ‘silvery’. For the color of the spines. Anthony: “This variety differs from the typical O[puntia] imbricata in its lower stature, smaller tubercles so that the areoles are closer together, and spines which are silvery throughout, hence the varietal epithet.”