Melocactus spatanginus

Melocactus spatanginus Suringar (1886)

🌵 Author(s)	Willem Frederik Reinier Suringar
🌵 Published in	Verslagen Meded. Afd. Natuurk. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. 3rd. ser. 2: 193 (1886)

Etymology

Greek spatangos, spatangēs ‘sea urchin’ + Latin -īnus, a suffix indicating possession or resemblance. Not explained by Suringar. Presumably for the shape of the plant body and the spination. See also Melocactus spatangus.