Maihueniopsis minuta

Maihueniopsis minuta (Backeb.) R.Kiesling (1984)

🌵 Author(s)	Roberto Kiesling
🌵 Basionym	Tephrocactus minutus (1936)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Curt Backeberg
🌵 Basionym published in	Kaktus-ABC [Backeb. & Knuth]: 110, 410 (1936)

Etymology

Latin mĭnūtus ‘very small’. Not explained by Backeberg. For the small stem segments (“articulis […] parvis”) or perhaps the “absent or very small” spines on new growth (“aculeis primum nullis vel minutismis [recte “minutissimis”]”).