Ferocactus chrysacanthus subsp. grandiflorus
(G.E.Linds.) N.P.Taylor (1998)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Nigel Taylor |
🌵 Basionym | Ferocactus fordii var. grandiflorus (1955) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | George Edmund Lindsay | 🌵 Basionym published in | Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 27: 164 (1955) |
Latin grandis ‘large’ + Latin –flōrus ‘flowered’. For the size of the flowers compared to Ferocactus fordii var. fordii.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 17). Ferocactus chrysacanthus subsp. grandiflorus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/ferocactus-chrysacanthus-subsp-grandiflorus