Stenocactus phyllacanthus

Stenocactus phyllacanthus (A.Dietr. & Otto) A.Berger (1929)

🌵 Author(s)	Alwin Berger
🌵 Published in	Kakteen (Berger): 346 (1929)
🌵 Basionym	Echinocactus phyllacanthus (1836)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Albert Dietrich Christoph Friedrich Otto
🌵 Basionym published in	Allg. Gartenzeitung (Otto & Dietrich) 4: 201 (1836)

Etymology

Greek phyllon ‘leaf’ + Greek akantha ‘spine’. For the flattened upper centrale spine, described by Dietrich and Otto as “almost leaf- or husk-like” (“fast blatt- oder spelzenartig”).