Mammillaria plumosa
F.A.C.Weber (1898)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Albert Weber | 🌵 Published in | Dict. Hort. [Bois] 2: 804 (1898) |
Latin plūmōsus ‘downy, feathered’. For “its pubescent spines similar to the down of a small feather. It is entirely covered by its silky, feather-shaped spines” (Weber). Compare Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae subsp. breviplumosa and Mammillaria pennispinosa.
van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, February 18). Mammillaria plumosa. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/mammillaria-plumosa