Frailea pygmaea subsp. albicolumnaris
(F.Ritter) Hofacker (1998)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Andreas Hofacker |
| 🌵 Basionym | Frailea albicolumnaris (1970) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Friedrich Ritter | 🌵 Basionym published in | Succulenta (Netherlands) 49: 124 (1970) |
Latin albus ‘white’ + Latin cŏlumnāris ‘columnar’. For the columnar habit and the white spines (Ritter: “columnaris”, “spinae albae”). Compare Copiapoa cinerea subsp. columna-alba and. Leucostele.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Sep 12). Frailea pygmaea subsp. albicolumnaris. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/frailea-pygmaea-subsp-albicolumnaris