Mammillaria pectinifera
F.A.C.Weber (1898)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Albert Weber | 🌵 Published in | Dict. Hort. [Bois] 2: 804 (1898) |
Latin pecten (stem pectÄn-) ‘comb’ + Latin –fer (feminine –fÄ•ra) ‘bearing’. For the comb-like arrangement of the spines. Published as a new name for Pelecyphora aselliformis var. pectinata hort. to avoid homonymy with Mammillaria pectinata Engelm. (1856) (= Coryphantha echinus).
van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, February 19). Mammillaria pectinifera. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-pectinifera