Mammillaria cirrosa
Poselg. (1853)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Heinrich Poselger | 🌵 Published in | Allg. Gartenzeitung (Otto & Dietrich) 21: 94 (1853) |
Latin cirrus ‘tendril’ + Latin –ōsus ‘full of’. For the “tendril-shaped” (“rankenförmig”) central spines that curve in different directions. Sometimes misspelled cirrhosa under the influence of the unrelated cirrhosis.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Mammillaria cirrosa. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-cirrosa