Melocactus neoviridescens
Guiggi (2020)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Alessandro Guiggi |
Greek neos ‘new’ + Latin viridescens ‘greening, greenish’ (translated as ‘to be green’ by Guiggi). For the color of the epidermis.
This nomen novum for Melocactus pachyacanthus subsp. viridis N.P.Taylor was chosen “to avoid the homonymy with Melocactus viridescens (Torrey et A.Gray) Nuttall ex Teschemacher and the confusion with some previous varietal taxa (i.e. Melocactus communis var. viridis Pfeiffer, Melocactus zehntneri var. viridis F.Ritter).” (The Melocactus viridis Lawr. mentioned in IPNI is based on a misreading of Melocactus communis [var.] viridis.)
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 02). Melocactus neoviridescens. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/melocactus-neoviridescens