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.
#Etymology unknown
Plants of the World Online (2020)
Joƫl LodƩ (2015): Taxonomy of the Cactaceae