Gymnocalycium reductum subsp. leeanum
(Hook.) Papsch (2000)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Wolfgang Papsch |
| 🌵 Basionym | Echinocactus leeanus (1845) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | William Jackson Hooker | 🌵 Basionym published in | Bot. Mag. 71: t. 4184 (1845) |
Named for British nurserymen John and Charles Lee of the Hammersmith Nursery, London, who raised plants of this taxon from seeds sent from Argentina. Not only for John Lee, as Eggli & Newton (Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004) claim (Hooker: “Messrs. Lee”).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 14). Gymnocalycium reductum subsp. leeanum. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/gymnocalycium-reductum-subsp-leeanum