Mammillaria formosa subsp. chionocephala
(J.A.Purpus) D.R.Hunt (1998)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | David Hunt |
🌵 Basionym | Mammillaria chionocephala (1906) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Joseph Anton Purpus | 🌵 Basionym published in | Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 16: 41 (1906) |
Greek chiōn ‘snow’ + Greek kephalē ‘head’. For the “snow white wool” (Purpus) that covers the upper part of the plant body.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 02). Mammillaria formosa subsp. chionocephala. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-formosa-subsp-chionocephala