Eriosyce curvispina var. robusta
(F.Ritter) Katt. (1994)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Fred Kattermann |
| 🌵 Basionym | Pyrrhocactus robustus (1960) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Friedrich Ritter | 🌵 Basionym published in | Succulenta (Netherlands) 1960(6): 65 (1960) |
Latin rōbustus ‘robust’. Not explained by Ritter. Probably for the larger plant body compared to Pyrrhocactus froehlichianus (= Eriosyce curvispina subsp. curvispina).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 May 31). Eriosyce curvispina var. robusta. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/eriosyce-curvispina-var-robusta