Gymnocalycium reductum
(Link) Pfeiff. ex Mittler (1844)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Ludwig Mittler |
🌵 Basionym | Cactus reductus (1822) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link | 🌵 Basionym published in | Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 21 (1822) |
Latin rĕdūctus ‘smaller than usual’ (Backer, Verklarend woordenboek. 1936). Not explained by Link. Presumably for the “short spines” (Link: “spinae breves”) compared to Cactus nobilis L. (= Ferocactus latispinus), the only other species in Link’s subgeneric group “B”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 22). Gymnocalycium reductum. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/gymnocalycium-reductum