Melocactus spatangus
Hort.Berol. ex Pfeiff. (1837)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Louis Pfeiffer | 🌵 Published in | Enum. Diagn. Cact.: 45 (1837) |
Greek spatangos, spatangÄ“s ‘sea urchin’. Not explained by Pfeiffer. Presumably for the shape of the plant body and the spination. See also Melocactus spatanginus.
Hort.Berol. (horti Berolinensi) means “from the Berlin (botanical) garden”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 17). Melocactus spatangus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/melocactus-spatangus