Parodia nigrispina

Parodia nigrispina (K.Schum.) F.H.Brandt (1982)

🌵 Author(s)	Fred Hermann Brandt
🌵 Basionym	Echinocactus nigrispinus (1899)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Karl Schumann
🌵 Basionym published in	Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 9: 45 (1899)

Etymology

Latin nĭger (stem nĭgr-) ‘black’, in botanical Latin ‘black a little tinged with grey’ (Stearn, Botanical Latin. 3rd Edition. 1983) For the color of the spines, which distinguished the taxon from Echinocactus schumannianus (= Parodia schumanniana). Schumann described the spines as “reddish in new growth, then then dull silvery, about the color in which native silver occurs in thread form in nature” (“im Neutrieb rötlich, dann matt-silberfarbig, etwa von der Farbe, in der das gediegene Silber fadenförmig in der Natur vorkommt”). The taxon was already known in cultivation as Echinocactus schumannianus var. nigrispinus F.Haage and “black-spined schumannianus” (“schwarzstachelig[er] Schumannianus“).