Echinocereus subinermis
Salm-Dyck ex Scheer (1856)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Friedrich Scheer | 🌵 Published in | Bot. Voy. Herald [Seemann] 7-8: 291 (1856) |
Latin sÅb ‘almost, more or less’ + Latin Änermis ‘unarmed’. Scheer: “Plant […] more or less naked, as if unarmed” (“Planta […] subnuda quasi inermis”). For the very short spines which make the plant appear spineless.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Echinocereus subinermis. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/echinocereus-subinermis