Ursopuntia
P.V.Heath (1999)
Etymology
šµ Author(s) | Paul V. Heath |
šµ Type | Ursopuntia textoris |
šµ Replaced by | Quasitephrocactus |
Presumably Latin ursus ‘bear’ + Opuntia. Application unknown (publication not seen). Perhaps named for Swiss botanist Urs Eggli, who published an article about the type species (Urs Eggli & Beat Ernst Leuenberg, On colour forms of Opuntia weberi (Cactaceae) with notes on the typification of the name, Willdenowia 28, 1998: 175-180) or a wordplay involving Salmonopuntia, a name published on the same page.
van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, February 5). Ursopuntia. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/ursopuntia