🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
Escobar + Latin -ĭa, the recommended suffix to form plant genus names from personal names that end with a consonant (Rec. 60B.1(b), International Code of Nomenclature). Named for “two distinguished Mexicans”, the brothers Rómulo Escobar Zerman (1872-1946) and Numa Pompilio Escobar Zerman (1874-1949), agronomists.
Escobaria scandens Korth. (Verhandeling over de op Java, Sumatra en Borneo verzamelde Loranthaceae: 282. 1839), an unidentified plant from Sumatra, was not validly published.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 16). Escobaria. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/escobaria