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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| Corpuscularia thunbergii | Corpuscularia thunbergii (Haw.) Schwantes | 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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| Indigofera ormocarpoides | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Ceropegia angusta | Ceropegia angusta N.E. Br. | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin angustus = ‘narrow’ Edit | |||
| Caralluma schweinfurthii | Caralluma schweinfurthii A. Berger | archives.nd.edu | Named after Dr. Georg August Schweinfurth, 20th century German botanist and taxonamist Edit | |||
| Zamioculcas loddigesii | Zamioculcas loddigesii Schott | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Epidorkis aphylla | Epidorkis aphylla (Thouars) Kuntze | archives.nd.edu | From Greek a- = 'without' and phyllon = 'leaf'; referring to it's leafless habit Edit | |||
| Erica coacervata | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
| Ophiodromini | Ophiodromini | Ophiodromini | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||
| Limeum aethiopicum var. intermedium | Limeum aethiopicum var. intermedium Friedrich | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin intermedia = ‘intermediate' Edit | |||
| Watsonia wilmaniae | archives.nd.edu | Named ofter Maria Wilman (1867-1957) of the Mcgregor Museum in Kimberly. Edit | ||||
| Haemanthus rupestris | Haemanthus rupestris Baker | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin rupestris = ‘associated with caves or rocks’ Edit | |||
| Grangea hispida | Grangea hispida Humbert | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin hispidus = ‘rough’ or 'with bristles' Edit | |||
| Polygonum lapathifolium var. nodosum | Polygonum lapathifolium var. nodosum (Pers.) Weinm. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
| Peponium caledonicum | archives.nd.edu | pertaining to the town of Caledon in the Overberg region of the southern Cape Edit | ||||
| Millettia grandis | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin grandis meaning 'large' or 'full grown' Edit |