Uebelmannia pectinifera

Uebelmannia pectinifera Buining (1967)

🌵 Author(s)	Albert Buining
🌵 Published in	Natl. Cact. Succ. J. 22(4): 86 (1967)

Etymology

Latin pecten (stem pectĭn-) ‘comb’ + Latin –fer (feminine –fĕra) ‘bearing’. For the spines, described by Buining as “disposed perpendicularly from each areole in a bunch which forms a perfect continuous comb with those from adjacent areoles”.