Thelocactus bicolor subsp. heterochromus
(F.A.C.Weber) Mosco & Zanov. (2000)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Alessandro MoscoCarlo Zanovello |
| 🌵 Basionym | Echinocactus heterochromus (1896) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Albert Weber | 🌵 Basionym published in | Dict. Hort. [Bois] 1: 466 (1896) |
Greek heterochrōmos ‘of different color’. For the color of the spines, described by Weber as “all variegated, that is to say yellowish at the base and at the tip, blood-red in the middle; only the upper 3 are entirely yellowish”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 22). Thelocactus bicolor subsp. heterochromus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/thelocactus-bicolor-subsp-heterochromus