Quasitephrocactus

Quasitephrocactus Popov, nom. illeg. (2012)

🌵 Author(s)	Georgiy Popov
🌵 Type	Quasitephrocactus weberi
🌵 Replacement of	Ursopuntia

Etymology

Latin quasi ‘as if, resembling or having a likeness to something’ + Tephrocactus. For the similarity to Tephrocactus.

This was the only plant genus with the prefix quasi– before the publication of Quasiantennaria R.J.Bayer & M.O.Dillon (Asteraceae) in 2019. It was presumably chosen because the more obvious name Pseudotephrocactus already existed.

Quasitephrocactus was intended as a replacement name for Ursopuntia, which Popov considered invalid.

#Monotypic genera #Replacement names