×Opulea lucayana
(Britton & Rose) M.H.J.van der Meer (2019)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Maarten H.J. van der Meer | 🌵 Published in | Cactologia Phantastica 3(3): 28 (2019) |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia ×lucayana (1906) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
| 🌵 Hybrid parents | Consolea macracanthaOpuntia stricta |
Latin Lucayana ‘Lucayan’. Presumably for the occurrence on the Lucayan Archipelago, which comprises the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The type locality is Grand Turk Island, Turks and Caicos Islands.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). ×Opulea lucayana. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opulea-lucayana