Echinocactus gilvus

Echinocactus gilvus A.Dietr. (1845)

🌵 Author(s)	Albert Dietrich
🌵 Published in	Allg. Gartenzeitung (Otto & Dietrich) 13: 170 (1845)

Etymology

Latin gilvus ‘pale yellow’. For the “isabelline flowers”, which distinguished the species from Echinocactus echidne (= Ferocactus echidne) as understood by Dietrich. The name contrasts with that of Echinocactus sulphureus (Latin sulphŭrĕus ‘sulphurous, sulphur-yellow’) (= Stenocactus sulphureus), which was described on the same page.