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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Eragrostis namaquensis var. namaquensis | Eragrostis namaquensis Nees ex Schrad. var. namaquensis | archives.nd.edu | namaquensis from the Namaqualand region of the Northern Cape, South Africa, originally inhabited by...Edit | |||
Hydroidea | Hydroidea | Hydroidea P. O. Karis | archives.nd.edu | Gk. hudros = water, water-loving; -oidea = of the nature of (a variant suffix). Hydroidea elsiae is...Edit | ||
Protea pubera | Protea pubera L. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis | archives.nd.edu | From Brazil Edit | ||||
Asparagus buchananii | archives.nd.edu | After John Buchanan (1819-1898), botanist with the Geological Survey in New Zealand. Edit | ||||
Centella thesioides | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin -oides = 'resembling', or 'like'; i.e. resembling the semi-parasitic genus Thesium (...Edit | ||||
Eriospermum erinum | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
Parkinsonia scioana | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
Eurocephalus | Eurocephalus | Eurocephalus Smith & A, 1836 | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
Orbea macloughlinii | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
Conophytum marginatum subsp. littlewoodii | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
Bromus japonicus | Bromus japonicus Thunb. | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin for 'of Japan' Edit | |||
Cerochlamys | Cerochlamys | Cerochlamys N.E. Br. | archives.nd.edu | Gk. keros = wax; chlamys = cloak, mantle; referring to the leaves, which are coated with wax (Hans...Edit | ||
Clerodendrum natalense | Clerodendrum natalense Gürke | archives.nd.edu | Meaning from the Natal or Kwa-Zulu Natal region of South Africa Edit | |||
Anthericum arvense | Anthericum arvense Schinz | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin arvensis = 'of the field' or 'of the meadow' Edit |