Mammillaria huitzilopochtlii subsp. niduliformis
(A.B.Lau) Pilbeam (1999)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | John Pilbeam |
🌵 Basionym | Mammillaria huitzilopochtlii var. niduliformis (1994) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Alfred Lau |
Latin nÄ«dÅlus ‘little nest’ + Latin –formis ‘-shaped’. For the interwoven central spines. Compare the English name bird’s nest cactus for Mammillaria camptotricha and Mammillaria longimamma.
Hunt (in Huitzilopochtlia 1: 2. 2009): “The last time I met Alfred [Lau] was at the University Botanic Garden in Mexico City in October 1986, when he showed me the plant that was to be preserved as the holotype of a new variety of M. huitzilopochtli. He thought the long twisted and interlacing spines made it look like a little bird’s nest, so I suggested he could give it the epithet ‘nidiformis’. He agreed but preferred the diminutive form ‘niduliformis’ and duly published the name some years later (JMS 34(4): 46–49. 1994).”
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 12). Mammillaria huitzilopochtlii subsp. niduliformis. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-huitzilopochtlii-subsp-niduliformis