Kadenicarpus horripilus
(Lem.) Vázquez-Sánchez (2019)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Monserrat Vázquez-Sánchez |
| 🌵 Basionym | Mammillaria horripila (1838) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Charles Lemaire |
| 🌵 Type of | Bravocactus |
Latin horrere ‘to bristle’ (not, in this context, ‘be seized with horror’, as Urs Eggli and Leonard E. Newton (Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004) claim) + Latin pilus ‘hair’ (horripilare ‘to bristle with hairs, to be shaggy’). For the bristly spines.
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