| 🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini | 🌵 Published in | Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 2(3): 667 (1837) |
| 🌵 Type | not cited |
Greek platys ‘wide, broad’ + Greek podion ‘foot of a vase’ or Latin pŏdĭum ‘elevated place, height’. For Zuccarini’s observation that the flowers of Melocactus mammillariiformis (= Coryphantha retusa) “develop from the center of a disc-shaped, always flat cephalium”, which in Zuccarini’s view did not fit in any of the cactus genera recognized at the time. He suggested this name for a possible new genus based on this species. It was taken up by Christian Heß (Spezielle Pflanzenkunde 2: 461. 1846) as Echinocactus sect. Platypodium “Zucc.”, which included the two species Echinocactus mammillariiformis (= Coryphantha retusa) and Echinocactus placentiformis (= Discocactus placentiformis).
Platypodium Vogel (also 1837) is a genus in the family Fabaceae.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Nov 24). Platypodium. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/platypodium