Mammillaria aureilanata
('Mamillaria aureilanata') Backeb. (1938)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Curt Backeberg | 🌵 Published in | Beitr. Sukkulentenk. Sukkulentenpflege 1938: 13 (1938) |
Latin aurĕus ‘golden’ + Latin lānātus ‘woolly’. For the “silky yellow cover of hairy spines” (“seidige[s] gelbe[s] Haarstachelkleid”) covering the plant body. Published as a new name for Mammillaria cephalophora Quehl, which is a younger homonym of Mammillaria cephalophora Salm-Dyck (= Coryphantha pycnacantha [Hunt in Bradleya 1: 110. 1983]). Backeberg: “I believe that the name Mam[millaria] aureilanata does even more justice to the beauty of this species than Quehl’s name.”
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 12). Mammillaria aureilanata. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-aureilanata