Cylindropuntia tunicata
(Lehm.) F.M.Knuth (1936)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Frederik Marcus Knuth |
🌵 Basionym | Cactus tunicatus (1827) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Johann Georg Christian Lehmann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Index Seminum [Hamburg] 16, adnot. 6 (1827) |
Latin tŭnĭcātus ‘clothed, covered’. Lehmann: “spines covered with a loose, almost transparent membrane” (“spinis membrana mobili subdiaphana tunicatis”). Margery Stuart Anthony (in Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 237. 1956): “The specific epithet […] refers to the sheaths which clothe the spines. The sheen of these papery-white sheaths, which almost obscure the stem in their abundance, strikes the eye with patches of reflected light, even at some distance.”
The species is known in Quechua as atoq waqachi (Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua de Qosqo, Diccionario: Quechua-Español-Quechua. Segunda edicíon. 2005).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jun 28). Cylindropuntia tunicata. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cylindropuntia-tunicata