Opuntia echios

Opuntia echios J.T.Howell (1933)

🌵 Author(s)	John Thomas Howell
🌵 Published in	Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 4, 21: 49 (1933)

Etymology

Not explained by Howell. Perhaps Latin echios ‘viper’s bugloss (Echium vulgare)’. Eggli & Newton (Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004): “perhaps for the similarity of the dense fine spination to the rough bristly hairiness of Viper’s Bugloss.”