Mammillaria nana
Backeb. (1966)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Curt Backeberg |
Latin nānus ‘dwarf’. For the small plant body. Backeberg (Kakteen-Lexikon: 249. 1979): “up to c. 2.5 cm [in diameter], usually less, c. 1.5 cm h[igh]”.
The “Mamillaria nana” in Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 4: 129. 1894 mentioned by Backeberg is a misreading of Mammillaria wildiana var. nana.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 26). Mammillaria nana. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-nana