Maihueniopsis conoidea
(Backeb.) F.Ritter (1980)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Friedrich Ritter | 🌵 Published in | Kakteen Südamerika 3: 873 (1980) |
| 🌵 Basionym | Tephrocactus conoideus (1958) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Curt Backeberg | 🌵 Basionym published in | Cactaceae (Backeberg) 1: 286 (1958) |
Latin cōnŏīdĕus ‘conical’. For the conical stem segments. Friedrich Ritter originally wanted to name this species “Tephrocactus schaeferi” after its discoverer, Karl Schäfer, and a related species “Tephrocactus conoideus“, but Curt Backeberg published the name Tephrocactus conoideus for the former species. Ritter (Kakteen Südamerika 3: 874. 1980): “As a result, I was forced not only to give up my name schaeferi for this species, but also the name conoideus for the other species [= Maihueniopsis archiconoidea] […].”
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 22). Maihueniopsis conoidea. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/maihueniopsis-conoidea