Echinocereus fasciculatus

Echinocereus fasciculatus (Engelm.) L.D.Benson (1969)

🌵 Author(s)	Lyman Benson
🌵 Basionym	Mammillaria fasciculata (1848)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	George Engelmann

Etymology

Latin fascĭcŭlātus ‘clustered, bundled’. For the “bunches of spines”. Engelmann: “Apparently a mammilaria [sic], though the habit of the plant is more that of an echinocereus, but all echinocerei have the bunches of spines disposed in vertical ridges, which is not the case in the figure in question. […] The name of M. fasciculata would indicate the peculiarity of this species.” Not “for the clusters of cane-like branches” (Eggli & Newton, Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004).