Discocactus placentiformis
(Lehm.) K.Schum. (1894)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Karl Schumann |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cactus placentiformis (1826) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Johann Georg Christian Lehmann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamburg 17 (1826) |
Latin plăcentÄformis (Latin plăcenta ‘cake’ + Latin –formis ‘-shaped’) ‘having the shape of a circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle’ (Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. 1913). For the shape of the plant body, described by Lehman as “hemispherical-depressed” (“hemisphaerico-depressus”).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 25). Discocactus placentiformis. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/discocactus-placentiformis