Mammillaria polythele

Mammillaria polythele Mart. (1832)

🌵 Author(s)	Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
🌵 Published in	Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 16(1): 328 (1832)

Etymology

Greek poly ‘many’ + Greek thēlē ‘nipple’. For the “dense spirals of tubercles” (“densas mammillarum spiras”) on the plant body.