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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| Iphigenia dinteri | Iphigenia dinteri Dammer | archives.nd.edu | Moritz Kurt Dinter (1868 -1945) was a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa (Namibia). ...Edit |
Dinter's biography can be seen at... |
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| Capparis rudatisii | Capparis rudatisii Gilg & Gilg-Ben. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Gladiolus benguellensis | archives.nd.edu | From Benguella in the Mossamedes District of Angola Edit | ||||
| Anderbergia ustulata | Anderbergia ustulata | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Cephalophyllum pulchrum | archives.nd.edu | Lation from the word 'pulchre' meaning 'beauty' Edit | ||||
| Crotalaria andromedifolia | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Nasturtium madagascariense | Nasturtium madagascariense DC. | archives.nd.edu | meaning from Madagascar Edit | |||
| Sericocoma | Sericocoma | Sericocoma Fenzl | archives.nd.edu | Gk. serikos = silky; kome = hair of the head. The ovary is woolly or tomentose. Edit | ||
| Duvalia elegans var. elegans | Duvalia elegans (Masson) Haw. var. elegans | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin elegans = 'elegant' or 'neat' Edit | |||
| Scirpus inconspicuus | Scirpus inconspicuus Levyns | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin in- = 'not' and conspicatus = 'observed', 'noticed'; i.e. inconspicuous Edit | |||
| Babiana longiflora | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin longus = ‘long’; and flora = ‘flower’ Edit | ||||
| Aparinella | Aparinella | Aparinella Fourr. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Anthericum krauseanum | Anthericum krauseanum Dinter | archives.nd.edu | For Ernst Hans Ludwig Krause (1859–1942), German botanist, medical doctor, cryptogamist, prolific...Edit |
He was a professor of botany at Strasbourg (1904–1914) and Rostock (1919–1933), served in the... |
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| Anisodontea gracilis | Anisodontea gracilis | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin gracilis meaning ‘graceful’ Edit | |||
| Wahlenbergia filipes | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin fīlum (“thread”) + pēs (“foot”); refers to the threadlike base Edit |