Cylindropuntia whipplei subsp. enodis
(Peebles) M.A.Baker (2019)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Marc A. Baker |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia whipplei var. enodis (1940) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Robert Hibbs Peebles | 🌵 Basionym published in | J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 30: 473 (1940) |
Latin ēnōdis ‘without knots, smooth’. For the tubercles on the fruits, described by Peebles as “broad, low, and not prominent” compared to those of Opuntia whipplei var. whipplei (= Cylindropuntia whipplei subsp. whipplei).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 10). Cylindropuntia whipplei subsp. enodis. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cylindropuntia-whipplei-subsp-enodis