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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| Tricharia | Tricharia | Tricharia Fée | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Tricalysia coriaceoides | Tricalysia coriaceoides De Wild. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Ixia amoena | Ixia amoena Link | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin amoenus = ‘pleasing / pleasant’ Edit | |||
| Lithops pseudotruncatella var. riehmerae | Lithops pseudotruncatella var. riehmerae D. T. Cole | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Scirpus trachyspermus | Scirpus trachyspermus (Nees) C.B. Clarke | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Sphalmanthus pentagonus var. occidentalis | Sphalmanthus pentagonus var. occidentalis (L. Bolus) L. Bolus | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin occidentalis = 'of / pertaining to the West'; generally referring to the Western...Edit | |||
| Huernia barbata × pillansii | Huernia barbata (Masson) Haw. × pillansii N.E. Br. | archives.nd.edu | Named after Capetonian botanist Neville Stuart Pillans (1884-1964). He joined the staff at Bolus...Edit | |||
| Albuca laxiflora | Albuca laxiflora Dinter | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Banksia | Banksia | Banksia sect. Banksia L.f. | archives.nd.edu | Named in honour of English naturalist, Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820). Edit |
Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to ... |
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| Fagonia isotricha var. isotricha | Fagonia isotricha Murb. var. isotricha | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Bradypterus | Bradypterus | Bradypterus Swainson, 1837 | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Brachychloa fragilis | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Afrika Burn 2007 - Tribe | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Restio obtusissimus | Restio obtusissimus Steud. | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin obtusus = ‘blunt' and -issima = an intensifier; i.e. the organ is very blunt Edit | |||
| Halopyrum mucronatum | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin mucronatus = ‘sharp pointed’ Edit |