Strombocactus disciformis

Strombocactus disciformis (DC.) Britton & Rose (1922)

🌵 Author(s)	Joseph Nelson Rose Nathaniel Lord Britton
🌵 Basionym	Mammillaria disciformis (1828)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
🌵 Type of	Strombocactus

Etymology

Latin discus ‘quoit, disc’ + Latin –formis ‘-shaped’. For the shape of the plant body. The name is not very distinctive: De Candolle described both Mammillaria sempervivi and this species as “disc-shaped” on the same page; apparently no better name came to mind.