Gangsteria

Gangsteria Frič, nom. nugax

🌵 Author(s)

Alberto Vojtěch Frič

Etymology

English gangster. This name and Gestapia for two “invasive” cactus genera were supposedly proposed by Frič to protest the German occupation of Czechoslovakia (Zdeňka Řezníčková, Osobnost A. V. Friče a jeho přínos pro české kulturní a vědecké prostředí [Diploma thesis]: 75. 2014; original source probably Karel Crkal, Lovec kaktusů: 344. 1983 [not seen]). See also Rebutia einsteinii.