Eopuntia

Eopuntia R.W.Chaney (1944)

🌵 Author(s)	Ralph Works Chaney
🌵 Published in	Amer. J. Bot. 31(8): 507-528 (1944)

Etymology

Greek ēōs ‘dawn’ and Eocene + Opuntia, called by Chaney “the dawn cactus of the Eocene”. A fossil plant originally thought to be an Opuntia-like cactus, but now considered a member of the family Cyperaceae. Sometimes incorrectly called Euopuntia (Greek eu- ‘true’).