Neoporteria subgibbosa

Neoporteria subgibbosa (Haw.) Britton & Rose (1922)

🌵 Author(s)	Joseph Nelson Rose Nathaniel Lord Britton
🌵 Basionym	Echinocactus subgibbosus (1831)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Adrian Hardy Haworth
🌵 Type of	Neoporteria Euporteria

Etymology

Latin sub- ‘almost, more or less’ + Latin gibbosus ‘gibbous, asymmetrically swollen’. For the plant body that is somewhat tuberculate, but less so than Echinocactus gibbosus = Gymnocalycium gibbosum. Haworth placed both species in Echinocactus sect. Gibbosi.