Melocactus violaceus
Pfeiff. (1835)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Louis Pfeiffer | 🌵 Published in | Allg. Gartenzeitung (Otto & Dietrich) 3: 313 (1835) |
Latin vĭŏlācĕus ‘violet-colored, violet’. For the color of the spines. Pfeiffer: “young spines crimson, then with fine transverse violet stripes” (“aculeis […] junioribus coccineis, dein violaceis transverse striatulis”).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Sep 16). Melocactus violaceus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/melocactus-violaceus