Opuntia galapageia var. saxicola
(J.T.Howell) Backeb. (1958)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Curt Backeberg |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia saxicola (1933) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | John Thomas Howell | 🌵 Basionym published in | Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 4, 21: 45 (1933) |
Latin saxum ‘rock’ + Latin –cŏla ‘inhabitor’. Howell: “On the coastal rocks of the southern part of Albemarle Island [Isabela Island, Galápagos Islands] O. saxicola is the most abundant cactus”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Sep 14). Opuntia galapageia var. saxicola. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opuntia-galapageia-var-saxicola