Opuntia atropes
Rose (1908)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson Rose | 🌵 Published in | Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 50: 518 (1908) |
Latin āter (stem ātr-) ‘black, dark’ + Latin pēs ‘foot’. For the spines, described by Rose as “dark yellow or brown at the base, much lighter, often white above”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2024 Jan 03). Opuntia atropes. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opuntia-atropes