Grusonia invicta
(Brandegee) E.F.Anderson (1999)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Edward Anderson |
🌵 Basionym | Opuntia invicta (1889) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Townshend Stith Brandegee | 🌵 Basionym published in | Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, 2: 163-164 (1889) |
🌵 Type of | Claviopuntia |
Latin invictus ‘unconquered, unconquerable, invincible’. Not explained by Brandegee. Presumably for the spines, which he described as “stout and thick”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Grusonia invicta. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/grusonia-invicta