Notocactus hypocrateriformis
(Otto & A.Dietr.) Herter (1943)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Wilhelm Herter |
🌵 Basionym | Echinocactus hypocrateriformis (1838) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Albert DietrichChristoph Friedrich Otto | 🌵 Basionym published in | Allg. Gartenzeit. vi: 169 (1838) |
Greek hypokratērion ‘stand of a mixing vessel’ + Latin –formis ‘shaped’, i.e. ‘trumpet-shaped’ (C.A. Backer, Verklarend woordenboek: 280. 1936). For the flowers (“flore hypocrateriformi”), described by Otto and Dietrich as “when fully expanded spread out in the shape of a presentation plate” (“bei vollkommener Expansion präsentirtellerförmig ausgebreitet”).