Opuntia ×curvispina
('curvospina') Griffiths (1916)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | David Griffiths | 🌵 Published in | Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 43: 88 (t. 2) (1916) |
🌵 Hybrid parents | Opuntia chloroticaOpuntia phaeacantha |
Latin curvus ‘crooked, curved, bent’ + Latin –spīnus ‘-spined’. For the central spines, described by Griffiths as “twisted, bent, and curving in various directions”, which dinstinguish the species from Opuntia chlorotica.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 12). Opuntia ×curvispina. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opuntia-curvispina