Melocactus pachyacanthus
Buining & Brederoo (1979)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Albert BuiningArnold Brederoo | 🌵 Published in | Kakteen And. Sukk. 27(1): 1 (1975) |
Greek pachys ‘thick’ + Greek akantha ‘spine’. For the spines, described by Buining & Brederoo as “very strong, up to 3 mm thick”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 May 30). Melocactus pachyacanthus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/melocactus-pachyacanthus