🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
🌵 Type | Frailea cataphracta |
Fraile + Latin -ĭa, the recommended suffix to form plant genus names from personal names that end with a consonant (Rec. 60B.1(b), International Code of Nomenclature). Named for Manuel Fraile, “who was born at Salamanca, Spain, in 1850, and who for years has diligently cared for the cactus collection in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.”
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 16). Frailea. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/frailea