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  • For Zenobia, third-century queen of Palmyra, a city-state in Syria  +
  • For the Cascade Mountains of western North America  +
  • For the state Idaho  +
  • For the state of Nevada, where endemic  +
  • For Étienne de Flacourt, 1607–1660, Governor of Madagascar  +
  • For “M. le marquis de Guardiola”  +
  • From ancient name of thistlelike plant  +
  • From generic name Talinum, and Greek opsis, resembling  +
  • From native name in Chile  +
  • Galibi name pourama-pouteri  +
  • Genera Splachnum and Bryum, alluding to resemblances  +
  • Generic name Ageratum and Latin - ina, diminutive  +
  • Generic name Amauria, and Greek - opsis, resembling  +
  • Generic name Bahia and Greek - opsis, resembling  +
  • Generic name Chrysanthemum and Latin -oides, resembling  +
  • Generic name Cleome, and Latin -ella, dimunitive  +
  • Generic name Dyssodia and Greek - opsis, resembling  +
  • Generic name Encelia and Greek -opsis, resembling  +
  • Generic name Helianthus and Latin - ella, diminutive  +
  • Generic name Hemizonia and Latin - ella, diminutive  +
  • Generic name Micropus and Greek - opsis, resembling  +
  • Generic name Picradenia and Greek - opsis, resembling  +
  • Generic name Sida and Latin -astrum, resembling  +
  • Generic names Sida and Alcea, alluding to resemblances  +
  • Genus Aloë and Latin -ina, resembling, alluding to fleshy leaves  +
  • Genus Andreaea and Greek bryon, moss, alluding to anomalous resemblance  +
  • Genus Arabis and Greek opsis, resembling  +
  • Genus Bartramia and Greek -opsis, resembling  +
  • Genus Brachythecium and Latin - astrum, incomplete resemblance  +
  • Genus Calliergon and Latin -ella, diminutive  +
  • Genus Camissonia and Greek -opsis, resemblance  +
  • Genus Campylium and Greek adelphos, brother, alluding to similarity  +
  • Genus Campylopus and Latin -ella, diminutive  +
  • Genus Chamaebatia and Latin - aria, connection, alluding to resemblance  +
  • Genus Chylismia and Latin -ella, diminutive, alluding to flower size  +
  • For either Johann Georg Heinrich Kramer, 1684–1744, Austrian Army physician and botanist, or his son William Heinrich Kramer, d. 1765, Austrian physician and naturalist, or both  +
  • For naturalist and plant collector Frederick William Thurow, 1852–1952, originally from Germany, of Hockley, Texas, near Houston  +
  • For the Holmgren family: Arthur Hermann Holmgren, 1912–1992, Noel Herman Holmgren, b. 1937, and Patricia Kern Holmgren, b. 1940  +
  • For “Dom. Delaire,” who sent a specimen to Lemaire from a garden in the Orléans district of France  +
  • For “Dr. Asahel Clapp, of New Albany, Indiana, one of the most zealous botanists of our Western States….” Quoted from protologue.  +
  • For “deux Anglais célèbres, l’un comme poète, l’autre comme physicien,” both named Young  +
  • For “rev. Patr. Mich. Venegas Hispani,” 1680–1764, “qui primus notitiam naturalem civilemque circà Californiam scripsit”  +
  • From Brazilian vernacular name mani oca, wood spirit root, alluding to use  +
  • From Greek mythology, Tithonus, son of Laomedon and consort of Aurora, symbolic of old age  +
  • From Monte Buckland, mountain of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, name commemorating William Buckland, 1784–1856, geologist, canon of Christ Church, Oxford, dean of Westminster from 1845, and Latin -ella, diminuntive  +
  • From a Singhalese name for a plant now known as Blainvillea acmella (Linnaeus) Philipson  +
  • Genera Dicranum and Weissia, alluding to relationship with Dicranum and fancied resemblance to Weissia  +
  • Generic name Brickellia and Latin - astrum, indicating inferiority or an incomplete resemblance  +
  • Generic name Citrus and Latin - ellus, diminutive, alluding to supposed resemblance of fruits  +
  • Generic name Erica and Greek meros, part or portion, alluding to resemblance of leaves  +