Ursopuntia

Ursopuntia P.V.Heath (1999)

🌵 Author(s)	Paul V. Heath
🌵 Type	Ursopuntia textoris
🌵 Replaced by	Quasitephrocactus

Etymology

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.