Gymnocalycium calochlorum

Gymnocalycium calochlorum (Boed.) Y.Itô (1952)

🌵 Author(s)	Yoshio Itō
🌵 Basionym	Echinocactus calochlorus (1932)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Friedrich Bödeker
🌵 Basionym published in	Monatsschr. Deutsch. Kakteen-Ges. 4(11): 260 (1932)

Etymology

Greek kalos ‘beautiful’ + Greek chlōros ‘greenish-yellow, pale green’. For the plant body, described by Bödeker as “not very large, but pretty, shiny light-leaf green” (“nicht sehr groß[], aber hübsch[], glänzend hellaubgrün[]”).