Cylindropuntia ramosissima
(Engelm.) F.M.Knuth (1936)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Frederik Marcus Knuth |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia ramosissima (1852) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | George Engelmann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Amer. J. Sci. Arts ser. 2, 14: 339 (1852) |
Latin rāmōsissĭmus ‘having the most or very many branches’. For the “spreading, strongly branching” (Engelmann: “divaricato-ramosissimo”) habit.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 12). Cylindropuntia ramosissima. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cylindropuntia-ramosissima