Opuntia galapageia var. myriacantha
(F.A.C.Weber) Backeb. (1958)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Curt Backeberg |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia myriacantha (1898) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Albert Weber | 🌵 Basionym published in | Dict. Hort. [Bois] 2: 894 (1898) |
Greek myri– ‘countless’ + Greek akantha ‘spine’. For the dense spination. Weber: “Very beautiful plant, covered with innumerable golden spines”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Sep 15). Opuntia galapageia var. myriacantha. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opuntia-galapageia-var-myriacantha