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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| Thymus microphyllus | Thymus microphyllus d'Urv. | archives.nd.edu | From the Greek mikros = ‘small’ and phyllon = ‘leaf’. Edit | |||
| Macroscelidea | Macroscelidea | Macroscelidea | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Senecio caulopterus | Senecio caulopterus Harv. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Erica cerinthoides | Erica cerinthoides L. | archives.nd.edu | From the Greek ‘cerinth’ / ‘kerinthe’ meaning ‘honeywort’; and the Greek ‘oides’ / ‘oides’ meaning...Edit | |||
| Ficus abutilifolia | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Ruschia modesta f. modesta | Ruschia modesta L. Bolus f. modesta | archives.nd.edu | From Latin modestus = 'modest', referring to the small size of the plant or its flowers. Edit | |||
| Osteospermum barberae | Osteospermum barberae (Harv.) Norl. | archives.nd.edu | Named after naturalist, writer and painter Mrs F.W. Barber, or the pioneering plant collector in...Edit | |||
| PSILOTACEAE | Psilotaceae | PSILOTACEAE Kanitz | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Apanteles hemara | Apanteles hemara | Apanteles hemara Nixon, 1965 | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Helichrysum maranguense | archives.nd.edu | Latin, from Greek helikhrusos, from helix ‘spiral’ + khrusos ‘gold’. It originally denoted a yellow...Edit | ||||
| Aerangis muscicola | Aerangis muscicola (Rchb. f.) Schltr. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Cladostemon paxianus | Cladostemon paxianus Gilg | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Argyrolobium sankeyi | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Capparis fascicularis var. zeyheri | Capparis fascicularis var. zeyheri (Turcz.) Toelken | archives.nd.edu | Named in honour of the renowned plant collector Carl (Karl) Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799-1858). One...Edit |
Ecklon died in Cape Town from smallpox during the epidemic of 1858. |
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| Calobota sericea | Calobota sericea (Thunb.) Boatwr. & B.-E. van Wyk | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin sericea meaning ‘silky’ Edit |