Escobaria tuberculosa
(Engelm.) Britton & Rose (1923)
Etymology
π΅ Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
π΅ Basionym | Mammillaria tuberculosa (1857) |
π΅ Basionym author(s) | George Engelmann |
π΅ Type of | Escobaria |
Latin tuberculosus ‘tuberculate’. Engelmann: “The short, corky tubercles, with very deep grooves, and very woolly when young, together with the long red fruit, distinguish our species from all the allied forms.”
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Escobaria tuberculosa. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/escobaria-tuberculosa