Maihueniopsis colorea

Maihueniopsis colorea (F.Ritter ex Backeb.) F.Ritter (1980)

🌵 Author(s)	Friedrich Ritter
🌵 Basionym	Tephrocactus coloreus (1963)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Curt Backeberg
🌵 Basionym published in	Kakteen Südamerika 3: 875 (1980)

Etymology

Latin cŏlōrĕus ‘colored’. Presumably for the color of the spines. Backeberg (Descr. Cact. Nov. iii: 14. 1963) not seen. Ritter (1980: 875): “The Latin diagnosis was drawn up by Backeberg with my author citation, without my knowledge. I had previously used the name as a nomen nudum.”