Opuntia humifusa
(Raf.) Raf.
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Constantine Samuel Rafinesque | 🌵 Published in | Fl. Med. ii. 247 (1830) |
🌵 Basionym | Cactus humifusus (1820) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Constantine Samuel Rafinesque | 🌵 Basionym published in | Ann. Nat. (1820) 15 (1820) |
Latin hÅmus ‘the earth, the ground, the soil’ + Latin fÅ«sus ‘stretched out, lying, recumbent, prostrate’. For the prostrate habit.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Opuntia humifusa. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opuntia-humifusa