Mammillaria densispina
(J.M.Coult.) Orcutt (1926)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Charles Russell Orcutt |
🌵 Basionym | Cactus densispinus (1894) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | John Merle Coulter | 🌵 Basionym published in | Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 3(2): 96 (1894) |
Latin densus ‘dense’ + Latin –spÄ«nus ‘-spined’. Coulter: “Very easily distinguished by its dense, erect spines, which so completely cover the plant as to give it the appearance of a large chestnut bur.”
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 14). Mammillaria densispina. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-densispina