Pilopsis
Y.Itô, nom. inval. (1950)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Yoshio Itō |
Publication not seen. Greek pilos ‘wool, felt cap’ or Latin pĭlus ‘hair’ + Greek –opsis ‘looking like’ (Mottram in Cactician 4: 260. 2014; Byles in Natl. Cact. Succ. J. 11(1): 25. 1956). According to Quattrocchi (CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names iii: 2072. 2000) the second part of the name refers to the genus Echinopsis.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Nov 25). Pilopsis. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/pilopsis