Opuntia polyacantha var. trichophora
(Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) J.M.Coult. (1896)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | John Merle Coulter |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia missouriensis var. trichophora (1856) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | George EngelmannJohn Milton Bigelow | 🌵 Basionym published in | Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 3: 300 (1856) |
Greek thrix (stem trich-) ‘hair’ + Greek –phoros ‘-bearing’. For the “bristly […] hair-like twisted spines” (Engelmann “aculeis 10-18 setiformibus […] capillaceis flexuosis”). Anthony (in Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 253. 1956): “The characteristic of bearing (“phora” Gr.) hairs (“Tricho” Gr.) from lower and older areoles clearly distinguishes this species [Opuntia trichophora] from its close relative, O. polyacantha“.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jun 28). Opuntia polyacantha var. trichophora. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opuntia-polyacantha-var-trichophora