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scacpharostrus (m)
scapharostra
(f)
scapharostrum
(n)
Also: scapharostris (m)
scapharostris
(f)
scapharostre
(n)

Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

 

From the Latin word “Scaphus” meaning “boat, the hull of a boat”, and the Latin word “Rostrum”meaning “the beak of a bird” referring to the long tubercles  
 

(The specific name implies: “boat shaped tubercles”)


(for example Ariocarpus scapharostrus)

 

 

 

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