Cylindropuntia tunicata

Cylindropuntia tunicata (Lehm.) F.M.Knuth ()
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🌵 BasionymCactus tunicatus ()
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🌵 Basionym published in Index Seminum [Hamburg] 16, adnot. 6 (1827)
Etymology

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).


How to cite

Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jun 28). Cylindropuntia tunicata. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cylindropuntia-tunicata