Opuntia tunoidea
Gibbes (1859)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Lewis Reeve Gibbes | 🌵 Published in | Proc. Elliott Soc. Nat. Hist. Charleston 1: 272 (1859) |
Spanish (from Taíno) tuna ‘prickly pear (Opuntia fruit)’ + Latin –ŏīdĕus ‘resembling’. Not explained by Gibbes, who had not seen the fruit of this species. For the similarity to Opuntia tuna?
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Jul 20). Opuntia tunoidea. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opuntia-tunoidea