Echinocactus platyacanthus

Echinocactus platyacanthus Link & Otto (1827)

🌵 Author(s)	Christoph Friedrich Otto Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
🌵 Type of	Echinocactus

Etymology

Greek platys ‘flat, broad’ + Greek akantha ‘spine’. For the “deplanate” (flattened) central spines.