Marniera macroptera

Marniera macroptera (Lem.) Backeb. (1951)

🌵 Author(s)	Curt Backeberg
🌵 Basionym	Phyllocactus macropterus (1864)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Charles Lemaire
🌵 Type of	Marniera

Etymology

Greek makros ‘large’ + Greek pteron ‘wing’. For the large stems (often described as wing-like, cf. the 19th-century German name Flügelkaktus ‘wing cactus’ for Phyllocactus). Lemaire: “It is apparently, if not the biggest (Phyll[ocactus] grandis Nob.), then at least the most robust of the genus, the one with the largest branches (whence the name!).”