Matucana haynei subsp. myriacantha
(Vaupel) Mottram (1997)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Roy Mottram |
| 🌵 Basionym | Echinocactus myriacanthus (1913) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Friedrich Vaupel | 🌵 Basionym published in | Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 50(2-3, Beibl. 111): 25 (1913) |
Greek myri– ‘countless’ + Greek akantha ‘spine’. For the dense spination. Vaupel: “Body […] densely covered with spines so that the body itself is no longer visible”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 11). Matucana haynei subsp. myriacantha. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/matucana-haynei-subsp-myriacantha