Frailea pygmaea
(Speg.) Britton & Rose (1922)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
| 🌵 Basionym | Echinocactus pygmaeus (1905) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Carlo Luigi Spegazzini | 🌵 Basionym published in | Anales Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires (ser. 3), 4: 497 (1905) |
Greek pygmaios ‘dwarfish’. For the very small plant body compared to other species in Echinocactus subgen. Notocactus (= Notocactus).
van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, April 1). Frailea pygmaea. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/frailea-pygmaea