🌵 Author(s) | Alberto Vojtěch Frič |
🌵 Basionym | Echinocactus subgen. Notocactus (1898) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Karl Schumann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 292 (1898) |
🌵 Type | Notocactus ottonis |
Greek notos ‘south wind’ + Cactus. Schumann (Gesamtbeschr. Kakt.: 379. 1898): “The whole group belongs exclusively to South America.” Austrocactus has the same meaning.
Not from Greek nо̄ton, nо̄tos ‘back, ridge’. The German name Buckelkaktus ‘hump cactus’ (Helm, Biologie der Kakteen: 66. 2010) seems to be based on this misinterpretation. Sometimes misspelled Nothocactus under the influence of Greek nothos ‘bastard, hybrid, spurious’.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Aug 26). Notocactus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/notocactus