Frailea gracillima
(Lem.) Britton & Rose (1922)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
🌵 Basionym | Echinocactus gracillimus (1839) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Charles Lemaire | 🌵 Basionym published in | Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 24 (1839) |
Latin grăcÄllÄmus ‘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”).
van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, February 15). Frailea gracillima. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/frailea-gracillima