Echinocereus engelmannii var. variegatus
(Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) Rümpler (1886)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Theodor Rümpler |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus engelmannii var. variegatus (1856) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | George EngelmannJohn Milton Bigelow | 🌵 Basionym published in | Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 3: 283 (1856) |
Latin vărĭĕgātus ‘mottled, variegated, of various colors’. For the upper central spines, described by Engelmann & Bigelow in Latin as “nigris corneo-variegatis” and in English as “white and black mottled”. Not for “the variable spine colours” (Eggli & Newton, Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 26). Echinocereus engelmannii var. variegatus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/echinocereus-engelmannii-var-variegatus