Tephrocactus aulacothele

Tephrocactus aulacothele (F.A.C.Weber) R.Kiesling & Oakley (2023)

🌵 Author(s)	Luis J. Oakley Roberto Kiesling
🌵 Basionym	Opuntia aulacothele (1904)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Albert Weber
🌵 Basionym published in	Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 10: 392 (1904)

Etymology

Greek aulax (stem aulak-) ‘furrow’ + Greek thēlē ‘nipple’. Weber: “At the upper part of the tubercles [on the epidermis] there is an areole in the form of a 3 mm long longitudinal furrow […]” (“A la partie supérieure des mamelons se trouve une aréole en forme de sillon longitudinal de 3 millimètres de long […])”.

Compare Aulacothele.

This name was proposed for rejection (Eggli & Merklinger in Taxon [Early View]. 2024).