Contribute Taxa Etymologies
Etymologies can be looked-up on Dave's Garden, DoBE and LLD
| Name | Canonical name | Scientific name | Lookups | Short etymology | Long etymology | Etymology applies to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Othonna uniflora | Othonna uniflora Savigny | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin ūni- = 'single' and flōs = 'flower' Edit | |||
| Digitaria elegantula | Digitaria elegantula Mez | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin elegans = 'elegant' or 'neat' and -ulus a diminutive implying 'slightly elegant' Edit | |||
| Gilgiochloa indurata | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Coracina pectoralis | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Dactyloctenium aristatum | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Chilianthus arboreus | Chilianthus arboreus (L. f.) A. DC. | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin arborea = 'tree-like', 'branching'. Edit | |||
| Restio andeaeanus | Restio andeaeanus (Pillans) H. P. Linder & C.R. Hardy | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Rhodocoma gracilis | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin gracilis meaning ‘graceful’ Edit | ||||
| Erica ramentacea | Erica ramentacea L. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Memecylon verruculosum | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Juncus delicatulus | Juncus delicatulus Steud. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Agrostis bergiana | Agrostis bergiana | Agrostis bergiana Trin. | archives.nd.edu | In honor of Karl Heinrich Bergius (1790–1818) German naturalist and apothecary who collected at ...Edit | ||
| Buchenroedera | Buchenroedera Eckl. & Zeyh. | archives.nd.edu | For Wilhelm Ludwig von Buchenröder (1783–1841), South African botanist, lieutenant in the Hottentot...Edit | |||
| Aspalathus teres subsp. thodei | archives.nd.edu | Honouring Justus Thode (1859-1932), a German naturalist and itinerant tutor Edit | ||||
| Bromopsis | Bromopsis | Bromopsis Fourr. | archives.nd.edu | Edit |