Cylindropuntia multigeniculata
(Clokey) Backeb. (1958)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Curt Backeberg |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia multigeniculata (1943) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Ira Waddell Clokey | 🌵 Basionym published in | Madroño 7: 69 (1943) |
Latin multus ‘many’ + Latin gĕnĭcŭlātus ‘bended, curved, having knots, jointed, geniculated’. For the “crowded lateral joints” (Clokey) on the stems.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 26). Cylindropuntia multigeniculata. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cylindropuntia-multigeniculata