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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boerhavia squarrosa | Boerhavia squarrosa Heimerl | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin squarros = "spreading horizontally, curved at the ends" Edit | |||
| Lotononis rostrata subsp. brachybotrys | Lotononis rostrata subsp. brachybotrys B.-E. van Wyk | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Selago decipiens | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin decipiens = ‘deceptive’ or 'false' / 'to catch' or 'trap'; usually referring to its...Edit | ||||
| Didelta carnosa var. tomentosa | Didelta carnosa var. tomentosa (Less.) Roessler | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin tomentosus = 'densely woolly' Edit | |||
| Caralluma winkleriana | Caralluma winkleriana (Dinter) A. C. White & B. Sloane | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Curculigo plicata var. barberae | Curculigo plicata var. barberae Baker | archives.nd.edu | Named after naturalist, writer and painter Mrs F.W. Barber, or the pioneering plant collector in...Edit | |||
| Microcoelia globulosa | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Scilla neglecta | Scilla neglecta Van der Merwe | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Rhinoptilus | Rhinoptilus | Rhinoptilus Strickland, 1852 | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Lathyrus latifolius | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin latus meaning ‘wide’; and folius meaning ‘leaf’; i.e. the plant is broad-leafed Edit | ||||
| Gnaphalium gnaphalodes | archives.nd.edu | From the Greek gnaphalon = ‘hank of wool’ and oides = ‘in the form of’; referring to the genus ...Edit | ||||
| Agamidae | Agamidae | Agamidae | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Ammannia senegalensis f. patens | Ammannia senegalensis f. patens Hiern | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin patens = 'open', 'well known' or 'obvious' Edit | |||
| Coccinia adoensis | archives.nd.edu | Possibly from the Dollo Ado region of Ethiopia Edit | ||||
| Adenium namaquarium | Adenium namaquarium G. Hensl. | archives.nd.edu | Edit |