Mammillaria petrophila
K.Brandegee (1904)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Katharine Brandegee | 🌵 Published in | Zoe 5: 193 (1904) |
Greek petros ‘stone’ + Greek philos ‘loving’. Not explained by Brandegee. Presumably for the occurrence on rocks. It was collected in the Sierra de la Laguna and the Sierra San Francisquito, Baja California.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Mammillaria petrophila. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-petrophila