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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Glekia | Glekia | Glekia Hilliard | archives.nd.edu | For Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs (1792–1844), German apothecary, one of the most prolific botanical...Edit | ||
Cliffortia polygonifolia var. polygonifolia | Cliffortia polygonifolia L. var. polygonifolia | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Lotononis divaricata | archives.nd.edu | From Latin divaricatus = "spreading" Edit | ||||
Lipocarpha senegalensis | Lipocarpha senegalensis (Lam.) Dandy | archives.nd.edu | From Senegal in West Africa Edit | |||
Eucomis bicolor | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin bi meaning ‘two’; and the Latin color meaning ‘colour’. This typically refers to the...Edit | ||||
Lonchostoma pentandrum | archives.nd.edu | Edit | ||||
Helichrysum ruwenzoriense | Helichrysum ruwenzoriense S. Moore | archives.nd.edu | From the Ruwenzori mountains on the border of Uganda and the DRC. The highest peak is 5109m. The...Edit | |||
Erica simulans var. simulans | Erica simulans Dulfer var. simulans | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin simulans = 'resembling'; usually referring to the similarity to another species Edit | |||
Ulex europaeus | Ulex europaeus L. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Aloe pienaarii | Aloe pienaarii Pole-Evans | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Coelidium cymbifolium | Coelidium cymbifolium C.A. Sm. | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Daubenya zeyheri | archives.nd.edu | Named in honour of the renowned plant collector Carl (Karl) Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799-1858). One...Edit |
Ecklon died in Cape Town from smallpox during the epidemic of 1858. |
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Acharia tragodes | Acharia tragodes | archives.nd.edu | Edit | |||
Conicosia brevicaulis | Conicosia brevicaulis (Haw.) Schwantes | archives.nd.edu | From the Latin brevis = "short" and caule = 'stem' Edit | |||
Harpagomantis tricolor | archives.nd.edu | Edit |