+Echinastrophytum

+Echinastrophytum Mottram (2014)

🌵 Author(s)	Roy Mottram
🌵 Published in	Cactician 4: 99 (2014)

Etymology

Graft-chimaeral genus for intergeneric graft-chimaeras of Astrophytum and Echinofossulocactus.

The names of graft-chimaeral genera are formed "by combining part of the name of the genus of one of the component genera, connected by a vowel, with the full name of the other component genus (condensed formula), and prefixing the addition sign “+”" (article 24, International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants).

Intended as a replacement name for +Astroferocactus, which is based on Astrophytum caput-medusae + Ferocactus glaucescens, but the combination “Echinofossulocactus glaucescens” was never published.