Echinocereus fendleri
(Engelm.) Sencke ex Haage (1860)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Friedrich Adolph Haage |
| 🌵 Basionym | Cereus fendleri (1849) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | George Engelmann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts ser. 2, 4(1): 51 (1849) |
Named for German American botanist and plant collector Augustus Fendler (1813-1883), who collected the species.
The English names Kuenzler hedgehog and Kuenzler’s cactus are based on Echinocereus kuenzleri, which is now considered a synonym of Echinocereus fendleri.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 14). Echinocereus fendleri. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/echinocereus-fendleri