Cylindropuntia imbricata subsp. spinitecta
('spinotecta') (Griffiths) M.A.Baker (2019)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Marc A. Baker |
🌵 Basionym | Opuntia spinitecta (1914) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | David Griffiths | 🌵 Basionym published in | Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington xxvii: 24 (1914) |
Latin spÄ«na ‘spine’ + Latin tÄ“ctus ‘covered’. For the “loosely sheathed” spines (Griffiths). The original spelling spinotecta is correctable to spinitecta under article 60.10 of the International Code of Nomenclature.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 25). Cylindropuntia imbricata subsp. spinitecta. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cylindropuntia-imbricata-subsp-spinitecta