Opuntia mesacantha subsp. lata
(Small) Majure (2014)
Etymology
| šµ Author(s) | Lucas C. Majure |
| šµ Basionym | Opuntia lata (1919) |
| šµ Basionym author(s) | John Kunkel Small | šµ Basionym published in | J. New York Bot. Gard. 20: 26 (1919) |
Latin lÄtus ‘broad, wide’. For the prostrate habit. Small: “Plant prostrate, often radially branched, sometimes forming mats nearly a meter in width”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Jul 08). Opuntia mesacantha subsp. lata. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opuntia-mesacantha-subsp-lata