Grusonia vilis
(Rose) H.Rob. (1973)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Harold Robinson |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia vilis (1909) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Joseph Nelson Rose |
Latin vilis ‘worthless, vile’. Presumably based on the Spanish vernacular name mentioned by Rose, perro ‘dog, asshole’ (as an adjective ‘doggish, awful, wicked’).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Grusonia vilis. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/grusonia-vilis