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 chamissonis | Erica chamissonis Klotzsch ex Benth. | archives.nd.edu | Named in honour of Ludolf Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838); naturalist, writer and poet. Edit |
Was naturalist on Count Romanzoff's expedition round the world, 1815-1818 in the vessel 'Rurik'... |
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| Drosera helianthemum | Drosera helianthemum Planch. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Cladosporiaceae | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Cyphostemma cymosum | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin cymosus = 'cymose' - an arrangement of flowers in a cyme which is an inflorescence...Edit | ||||
| Sesbania sinuo-carinata | Sesbania sinuo-carinata Ali | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin sinus = 'curved' or 'folded' and carina = 'keel' Edit | |||
| Platycarphella | Platycarphella | Platycarphella V.A. Funk & H. Rob. | archives.nd.edu | Gk. platys = broad, flat; karphos = a dry stalk, chip of straw or wood, a scale.; -ella =...Edit | ||
| Helichrysum evansii | archives.nd.edu | Named after the botanist Illtyd B. Pole-Evans (1879-1968) Edit | ||||
| Seriphium niveum | Seriphium niveum Pers. | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin niveus = ‘snowy’; referring to a "snowy" coating on the vegatative parts Edit | |||
| Restio peculiaris | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Ledermanniella warmingiana | Ledermanniella warmingiana (Gilg) C. Cusset | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Laridae | Laridae | Laridae | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Geissorhiza fourcadei | archives.nd.edu | Commemorating French botanist Henry Georges Fourcade (1865-1948), surveyor and collector in the...Edit | ||||
| Scaevola plumieri | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Steganotaenia araliacea var. araliacea | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Torenia goetzei | archives.nd.edu | For Reverend Olof Torén (1718–1753), Swedish clergyman, traveller, botanist and plant collector,...Edit |