Notocactus hypocrateriformis

Notocactus hypocrateriformis (Otto & A.Dietr.) Herter (1943)

🌵 Author(s)	Wilhelm Herter
🌵 Basionym	Echinocactus hypocrateriformis (1838)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Albert Dietrich Christoph Friedrich Otto
🌵 Basionym published in	Allg. Gartenzeit. vi: 169 (1838)

Etymology

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”).