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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Merciera tenuifolia var. thunbergiana | Merciera tenuifolia var. thunbergiana Sond. | archives.nd.edu | For Carl Pehr (Peter) Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish botanist, physician, student of Linnaeus,...Edit |
Thunberg did extensive botanical exploration in the southern Cape where no botanical collecting... |
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Anisodontea dissecta | Anisodontea dissecta | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Eriosema populifolium subsp. populifolium | archives.nd.edu | From Populus, the poplar tree and the Latin folia = 'leaf'; with a leaf resembling a poplar. Edit | ||||
Anthericum indutum | Anthericum indutum Poelln. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Indigofera glandulifera | Indigofera glandulifera Steud. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Plectranthus laxiflorus | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
Laurembergia tetrandra | Laurembergia tetrandra (Schott) Kanitz | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Conophytum rubricarinatum | Conophytum rubricarinatum Tischer | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin rubrum = 'red' and carina = 'keel' Edit | |||
Protea lacticolor var. angustata | Protea lacticolor var. angustata E. Phillips | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin angustus = ‘narrow’ Edit | |||
Blaeria dumosa var. breviflora | Blaeria dumosa var. breviflora N.E. Br. | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin brevis = "short" and flora = "flower". Edit | |||
Kyllinga crassipes | archives.nd.edu | From Latin crassus = "thick" and pes = "foot". In plants the foot often alludes to the base of a...Edit | ||||
Otholobium nigricans | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
Lonchitis caffrorum | Lonchitis caffrorum Bernh. | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin caffrorum referring to British Kaffraria, the name given to the area between the Kei...Edit | |||
Asparagus buruensis | Asparagus buruensis Engl. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Mesembryanthemum agninum var. integrifolium | Mesembryanthemum agninum var. integrifolium Salm-Dyck | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin integri = 'entire' and folius = 'leaves'. i.e. The plant having entire leaves,...Edit |