Frailea gracillima

Frailea gracillima (Lem.) Britton & Rose (1922)

🌵 Author(s)	Joseph Nelson Rose Nathaniel Lord Britton
🌵 Basionym	Echinocactus gracillimus (1839)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Charles Lemaire
🌵 Basionym published in	Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 24 (1839)

Etymology

Latin grăcĭllĭmus ‘very slender, very delicate’. For the slender plant body (Lemaire: “E[chinocactus] plane gracilis”, “E[chinocacte] très grêle”). Lemaire also described the spines as “bristly and very delicate” (“setaceis, gracillimis”).