Sclerocactus brevihamatus
(Engelm.) D.R.Hunt (1991)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | David Hunt |
| 🌵 Basionym | Echinocactus brevihamatus (1857) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | George Engelmann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts iii: 271 (1857) |
Latin brĕvis ‘short’ + Latin hāmātus ‘hooked’. For the short, hooked lower central spines.
Engelmann spelled the epithet brevi-hamatus.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 14). Sclerocactus brevihamatus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/sclerocactus-brevihamatus