Turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus subsp. rubriflorus
(Gerhart Frank) Panar. (1999)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Paolo Panarotto |
| 🌵 Basionym | Turbinicarpus schwarzii var. rubriflorus (1993) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Gerhart Frank | 🌵 Basionym published in | Succulenta (Netherlands) 72(2): 79 (1993) |
Latin rŭber (stem rŭbr-) ‘red’ + Latin –flōrus ‘-flowered’. For the flower color. Frank: “The outer petals are pale pink with a broad red-brown center stripe, the inner petals are pink with a dark pink center stripe.” Charles Glass, who discovered the taxon, gave it the provisional name “Purple Schwarzii” and described the flowers as “red” (quoted by Frank).
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 13). Turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus subsp. rubriflorus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/turbinicarpus-schmiedickeanus-subsp-rubriflorus