Opuntia dejecta
Salm-Dyck (1834)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph zu Salm-Dyck | 🌵 Published in | Hort. Dyck.: 361 (1834) |
Latin dÄ“jectus ‘hanging downwards’. For the drooping branches. Salm-Dyck: “Stem segments thin and variously spread out or hanging downwards” (“Articuli […] macri et varie diffusi seu dejecti”). Not “for the low growth” (Eggli & Newton, Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Jul 20). Opuntia dejecta. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opuntia-dejecta