Matucana comocephala
('comacephala') F.Ritter (1958)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Friedrich Ritter | 🌵 Published in | Succulenta (Netherlands) 1958: 92 (1958) |
Greek komÄ“ ‘hair’ + Greek kephalÄ“ ‘head’. For the “wig-shaped top” of the plant.
The original spelling comacephala is correctable to comocephala under article 60.10 of the International Code of Nomenclature.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Sep 21). Matucana comocephala. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/matucana-comocephala