Mammillaria crucigera
Mart. (1832)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius | 🌵 Published in | Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 16(1): 340 (1832) |
Latin crux (stem crÅc-) ‘cross’ + Latin –ger (feminine –gÄ•ra) ‘bearing’. For the four central spines that are “arranged in the form of a cross” (Martius: “in crucis formam dispositis”).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 21). Mammillaria crucigera. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-crucigera