Mammillaria melanocentra subsp. rubrograndis
(Repp. & A.B.Lau) D.R.Hunt (1997)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | David Hunt |
| 🌵 Basionym | Mammillaria rubrograndis (1979) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Alfred LauWerner Reppenhagen | 🌵 Basionym published in | Kakteen And. Sukk. 30(4): 83 (1979) |
Latin rÅber (stem rÅbr-) ‘red’ + Latin grandis ‘large’. For the “much larger red flowers” compared to Mammillaria roseoalba (Lau in Kakteen And. Sukk. 28(12): 281. 1977).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Sep 08). Mammillaria melanocentra subsp. rubrograndis. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-melanocentra-subsp-rubrograndis