Thelocactus multicephalus
Halda & Panar. (1998)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Josef Jakob HaldaPaolo Panarotto | 🌵 Published in | Acta Mus. Richnov., Sect. Nat. 5(1): 40 (1998) |
Latin multus ‘many’ + Greek kephalē ‘head’. For the “clump-forming, multiheaded” growth habit, which distinguishes the species from Thelocactus rinconensis.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 12). Thelocactus multicephalus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/thelocactus-multicephalus