Grusonia bulbispina
(Engelm.) H.Rob. (1973)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Harold Robinson |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia bulbispina (1856) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | George Engelmann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 3: 304 (1856) |
Latin bulbus ‘bulb’ + Latin –spīnus ‘-spined’. For the “almost terete, somewhat scabrid spines with a bulbous base” (Engelmann: “aculeis teretiusculis scabrellis basi bulbosis”).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 19). Grusonia bulbispina. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/grusonia-bulbispina