Thelocactus rinconensis

Thelocactus rinconensis (Poselg.) Britton & Rose (1923)

🌵 Author(s)	Joseph Nelson Rose Nathaniel Lord Britton
🌵 Published in	Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 7 (1923)
🌵 Basionym	Echinocactus rinconensis
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Heinrich Poselger
🌵 Basionym published in	Allg. Gartenzeitung (Otto & Dietrich) 23: 18 (1855)

Etymology

Spanish rincón ‘corner’ + Latin –ensis, geographical suffix. For the occurrence in “Mexico near La Rinconada” (Poselger), presumably Rinconada (Spanish rinconada ‘corner’), Nuevo León. The epithet is sometimes corrected to rinconadensis.