Discocactus cephaliaciculosus

Discocactus cephaliaciculosus Buining & Brederoo ex P.J.Braun & Esteves (1995)

🌵 Author(s)	Eddie Esteves Pereira Pierre Braun
🌵 Published in	Kakteen And. Sukk. 46(3): 63 (1995)

Etymology

Latin cĕphălĭum ‘cephalium’ + Latin ăcĭcŭla ‘small pin for a head-dress’ + Latin –ōsus ‘full of’. For the spiny cephalium, which reminded Buining and Brederoo of a pincushion (Kakteen And. Sukk. 26(5): 100. 1975).