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 |
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| Erica zebrensis | archives.nd.edu | From the name of the farm Zebrafontein where the species was discovered Edit | ||||
| Persica | Persica | Persica Mill. | archives.nd.edu | La. persicum = peach. Edit | ||
| Dolichos rotundifolius | Dolichos rotundifolius Vahl | archives.nd.edu | From Latin rotundus = 'round' and folium = 'leaf' Edit | |||
| Dodonaea thunbergiana | Dodonaea thunbergiana Radlk. | archives.nd.edu | For Carl Pehr (Peter) Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish botanist, physician, student of Linnaeus,...Edit |
Thunberg did extensive botanical exploration in the southern Cape where no botanical collecting... |
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| Lagarinthus virgatus | Lagarinthus virgatus E. Mey. | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin virgatus meaning 'striped' or more typically a ‘twig / switch’; typically referring...Edit | |||
| Gladiolus tenuis | Gladiolus tenuis Baker | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin tenuis meaning ‘fine / thin / slender’ Edit | |||
| Lithops fulleri | Lithops fulleri N.E. Br. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Combretum oubanguense | Combretum oubanguense Exell | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Withania obtusifolia | Withania obtusifolia Täckh. | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin obtusus = ‘blunt' and folia = 'leaf' Edit | |||
| Dendrocalamus strictus | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin strictus = ‘compressed’ or 'constricted' Edit | ||||
| Chlorophytum calyptrocarpum | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Eragrostis macrochlamys | Eragrostis macrochlamys Pilg. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Alaudidae | Alaudidae | Alaudidae | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Lotononis dichiloides | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Gladiolus bracteatus | Gladiolus bracteatus Thunb. | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin bracteatus = 'bracts' Edit |