Oreocereus hempelianus

Oreocereus hempelianus (Gürke) D.R.Hunt (1987)

🌵 Author(s)	David Hunt
🌵 Basionym	Echinopsis hempeliana (1906)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Max Gürke
🌵 Type of	Arequipiopsis

Etymology

Named for German cactus collector Georg Hempel (1847-1904). The species was sent by Friedrich Fobe, the head of Hempel’s estate nursery, to Karl Schumann, who provisionally named it Echinocactus hempelianus but died before he could describe it.