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  • <i>buxus</i>  +
  • A sea-nymph in Greek mythology, allusion obscure  +
  • Aboriginal name in French Guiana  +
  • Abridged from Greek Staphylodendron, ancient name for the genus  +
  • After John Torrey (1796–1873), distinguished U.S. botanist  +
  • After the Swedish botanist E. Tillands, 1640–1693  +
  • Alexander’s rock aster  +
  • Alluding to Mohave River  +
  • Alteration of genus name Lasianthus  +
  • American Indian assimin through French asiminier  +
  • An ancient name or, perhaps, derived from generic name Gnaphalium  +
  • Anagram of Allium  +
  • Anagram of Inula, name of another genus of Asteraceae  +
  • Anagram of Myginda, to which these species had been referred  +
  • Anagram of generic name Arabis  +
  • Anagram of generic name Lasia (now Forsstroemia), alluding to similarity  +
  • Anagram of generic name Malpighia  +
  • Anagram of generic name Mitella  +
  • Anagram of generic name Stenotus  +
  • Anagram of genus name Pterogonium  +
  • Anagram of specific epithet salmantica  +
  • Anagram, for Thomas Smith, English microscopist, died ca. 1825  +
  • Ancient Arabic name  +
  • Ancient Celtic name for plant known to Druids  +
  • Ancient Greek asaron, name of an unknown plant  +
  • Ancient Greek name for plants of the genus  +
  • Ancient Greek name psidion for Punica, alluding to supposed resemblance  +
  • Ancient Greek name used by Theophrastus for plant used to curdle milk  +
  • Ancient Latin name for bramble, from ruber, red  +
  • Ancient Latin or Greek plant name  +
  • Ancient name for an endive-like plant, attributed to Pliny  +
  • Ancient name for fleabane  +
  • Ancient name used by Pliny for a Polygonum taxon  +
  • Ancient name used by Theophrastus for a Salix taxon  +
  • Ancient name, perhaps from Greek malache, mallow  +
  • Apparently from Chinese name for one of the species  +
  • Apparently from an African vernacular name  +
  • Arabic alloeh, a name for these or similar plants  +
  • Arabic assthirak, name for type species, S. officinalis  +
  • Arabic lufah, name for L. aegyptiaca  +
  • Arabic mouz  +
  • Arabic name doronigi  +
  • Arabic name qaqulleh  +
  • Arabic qartam, safflower  +
  • Arabic ribas, rhubarb, mistakenly applied to currants  +
  • Arabic tamr, a tree with dark bark  +
  • Arabic to Persian talkh chakok, a bitter herb  +
  • Association with the disease scrofula by the doctrine of signatures  +
  • Based on an anagram of Scott  +
  • Blysmus, a genus name, and Greek - opsis, likeness  +
  • C lassic Latin name derived from Greek ion, violet  +
  • Carib Indian name for Manihot, erroneously applied  +
  • Celtic ar mor, at seaside, alluding to habitat  +
  • Ceylonese vernacular name  +
  • Ceylonese vernacular name for a species of Abutilon  +
  • Chilean Native American (Mapuche) name for hardwood of Amomyrtus luma  +
  • Chinese name meaning "plant from the south"  +
  • Classical Greek name for a water nymph, alluding to habitat  +
  • Classical Latin name  +
  • Classical Latin name for European strawberry tree, A. unedo Linnaeus  +
  • Classical name for a species of myrtle  +
  • Columbia (River), and doria, an early name for goldenrods  +
  • Common name in Guiana  +
  • Country name Mexico and Latin malva, mallow  +
  • Derivation not given  +
  • Derivation uncertain  +
  • Derivation unknown  +
  • Dioscoridean name for A. arboreum  +
  • Diphasium, a generic name, and -astrum, incomplete resemblance  +
  • Etymology not clear  +
  • Etymology recondite  +
  • Etymology uncertain  +
  • Etymology unclear  +
  • Etymology unknown  +
  • For A. Q. Rivinus, 1652–1723, professor of botany at Leipzig  +
  • For Abbé N. A. Pluche, 1688–1761, French naturalist  +
  • For Abel Joel Grout, 1867 – 1947, American bryologist  +
  • For Abraham Munting, 1626 – 1683 Dutch botanist  +
  • For Adam Buddle, 1660–1715, English botanist, vicar of Farmbridge  +
  • For Alexander Karlovich Boschniak, 1786–1831, Russian botanist  +
  • For Alexander Russell, c. 1715–1768, Scottish physician and naturalist  +
  • For Alice Eastwood, 1859–1953, western American botanist  +
  • For Almut G. Jones, b. 1923, American Aster specialist  +
  • For Alphonse Luisier, 1872–1957, French bryologist  +
  • For Althaea, wife of King Oeneus of Aetolia or Calydon  +
  • For Anders Thiodolf Saelan, 1834–1921, Finnish botanist  +
  • For Andreas Elias von Büchner, 1701–1769, physician  +
  • For Antoine Guillemin, 1796–1842, French botanist, author, and explorer  +
  • For Antonio Krapovickas, b. 1921 Argentinian botanist  +
  • For Apache Indians  +
  • For Arnold Gillen, seventeenth-century German botanist and physician  +
  • For Atamisco region of Chile  +
  • For Atanasio Echevería y Godoy, fl. 1787–1803, Mexican botanical artist  +
  • For August Jaeger, 1842 – 1877, Swiss bryologist  +
  • For Augustin Sageret, 1763–1851, French botanist  +
  • For Benjamin Stillingfleet, 1702–1771, British botanist  +
  • For Bernardo Cienfuegos, ca. 1580 – ca. 1640, Spanish botanist  +
  • For Billie Lee Turner, b. 1925, American botanist  +
  • For C. Allioni, 1725–1804, Italian botanist  +
  • For C. V. Piper, American botanist of the Pacific Northwest  +
  • For Captain Soleirol, collector in Corsica  +
  • For Captain William Clark, 1770–1838, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition  +
  • For Carl Friedrich E. Warnstorf, 1837–1921, German teacher and botanist  +
  • For Carl Gustav Sanio, 1832–1891, German botanist  +
  • For Carson Desert of Nevada  +
  • For Charles Francis Greville, 1749–1809, Fellow of the Royal Society  +
  • For Charles V, 1500–1558, Holy Roman Emperor  +
  • For Charles Wilkens Short, 1794–1863, Kentucky botanist  +
  • For Charles l’Écluse, 1525 – 1609, Flemish botanist  +
  • For Chen Pan Chieh, 1907–1970, Chinese bryologist  +
  • For Christian Georg Schwalbe, eighteenth-century medical botanist  +
  • For Christian Mentzel, 1622–1701, German botanist  +
  • For Christian Schkuhr, 1741–1811, German botanist  +
  • For Christoph Ludwig Koeberlin, 1794–1862, German clergyman and botanist  +
  • For Claes Gustav Myrin, 1803 – 1835, Swedish bryologist  +
  • For Claude Aubriet, 1663–1743, French artist  +
  • For Daniel Cady Eaton, 1834–1885, American botanist  +
  • For David Daniels Keck, 1903–1995, California botanist, and ella, honor  +
  • For David Hieronymus Grindel, 1776–1836, Latvian botanist  +
  • For David Hoven, 1724–1787, Dutch senator and botanical patron  +
  • For David Krieg, 16??–1713, plant collector in Maryland and Delaware  +
  • For David M. Bates, b. 1935 American botanist, and Latin malva, mallow  +
  • For David Meese, 1723 – 1770, Dutch gardener  +
  • For David Townsend, 1787–1858, American amateur botanist  +
  • For Domingo Castillejo, 1744–1793, Spanish botanist  +
  • For Donald William Kyhos, b. 1929, Californian botanist  +
  • For Edward Smith Stanley, 1775–1851, British statesman and ornithologist  +
  • For Elva Lawton, 1896 – 1993 American bryologist  +
  • For Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim, 1764 – 1832, German paleontologist  +
  • For Ernst Gottfried Hornung, 1795–1862, German pharmacist in Schwarzburg  +
  • For Eugene Abraham Rau, 1848 – 1932, American bryologist  +
  • For Euphorbus, first-century A.D. Greek physician  +
  • For F. Bassi, 1710–1774, Italian naturalist  +
  • For F.L. de Laporte de Castelnau, leader of expeditions to South America  +
  • For Francis Duncan Kelsey, 1849 – 1905 Montana Botanist  +
  • For Francis Whittier Pennell, 1886–1952, American botanist  +
  • For Francisco Ximenes de Luna, 17th century Franciscan monk and botanist  +
  • For Franco Andrea Bonelli, 1784–1830, Italian zoologist  +
  • For Frantz Caspar Kiaer, 1835–1893, Norwegian bryologist  +
  • For François Descurain, 1658–1740, French botanist and apothecary  +
  • For François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy, 1663–1736, Austrian General  +
  • For Friedrich Hilpert, b. 1907, German bryologist  +
  • For Friedrich Wilhelm Weiss, 1744–1826, lichenologist of Göttingen  +
  • For G. Ledyard Stebbins, 1906–2000, California botanist  +
  • For G. Venturi, 1830–1898, Italian lawyer and bryologist  +
  • For G. W. Webster, 1833–1914, American botanist and farmer  +
  • For General José Palafox, 1776–1847, Spanish patriot  +
  • For George Engelmann, 1809–1884, German-American physician and botanist  +
  • For George Jones Goodman, 1904–1999, authority on Chorizanthe  +
  • For George Newton Best, 1846 – 1926 American bryologist  +
  • For George Suckley, 1830–1869, physician and naturalist  +
  • For George Tradescant Lay, a naturalist on Beechey’s voyage (1825–1828)  +
  • For George Wolfgang Wedel, 1645–1721, botanist/professor at Jena  +
  • For Gilbert Thereon Benson, 1896–1928, Stanford University botanist  +
  • For Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni, 1752 – 1822, Italian naturalist  +
  • For Gottleib Wilhelm T. G. Bischoff, 1797–1854, German botanist  +
  • A mythi-cal hermaphrodite monster, in reference to the original inclusion in Menispermaceae, where it was the only genus with bisexual flowers  +
  • A name mentioned by Dioscorides, presumably for a plant now referable to Senecio or a related genus  +
  • Alluding to imagined resemblance of leaves or fruits to those of a fig, Ficus carica, erroneously thought to be from Caria in southwestern Asia Minor  +
  • Alluding to the Tamaulipan Desert region, to which the species is restricted  +
  • America plus orchis, from the American distribution of this close relative of Eurasian Orchis  +
  • Ancient Greek name for horseradish, or perhaps Celtic ar, near, mor, sea, and rich, against, alluding to habitat  +
  • Ancient Latin name used by Pliny, probably corruption of barbascum, bearded, alluding to dense tomentum, or barbarum, medicinal plaster, alluding to use of some species  +
  • Arabic melóchich, name for Corchorus olitorius Linnaeus, a salad plant in the East  +
  • Arabic name alkemelyeh, perhaps alluding to alchemists' interest in reputed marvelous powers of its dew  +
  • Arabic suaed, black, Arabic name for Suaeda vera Forsskål ex J. F. Gmelin  +
  • Asa, honoring American botanist Asa Gray, 1810–1888, and Greek anthos, flower  +
  • Attributed to Dioscorides, Greek petasos, broad-brimmed hat, alluding to large basal leaves  +
  • Canada and Greek anthos, flower, alluding to mainly Canadian distribution  +
  • Chinese yin, silver, and hing, apricot, in reference to appearance of the seed  +
  • Cited by Dioscorides as Roman name for a species of Catananche Linnaeus (Asteraceae), applied here possibly alluding to similarity  +
  • Classical Greek name, perhaps derived from pálin, again or once more, and oúron or oureó, urine or to make water, alluding to diuretic properties of roots and leaves of P. spina-christi  +
  • Classical Latin for the English oak, Quercus robur, from some central European language  +
  • Classical Latin name, from Greek figos, an oak with edible acorns, probably from Greek fagein, to eat  +
  • Classical Latin, Pliny's name for Celtis australis Linnaeus, the "lotus" of the ancient world  +
  • Classical Latin, from Greek kastanaion karuon, nut from Castania, probably referring either to Kastanaia in Pontus or Castana in Thessaly  +
  • Derivation equivocal, perhaps from misreading of Latin azania, a kind of pine cone, or from Latin zamia, loss, from the "sterile appearance" of the pollen cones  +
  • Derivation obscure, perhaps for Anders Kallström, 1733–1812, a contemporary of Scopoli  +
  • Derivation uncertain, perhaps from Caiapó, river or native tribe of Amazonian Brazil  +
  • Distorted Greek kodon, bell, and phoras, bearing, alluding to capsules with bell-shaped calyptrae  +
  • Evidently from Latin sphagnum, a moss, and cola, dwelling in, perhaps alluding to usually wet habitats  +
  • For Abram P. Garber, 1838–1881, of Columbia, Pennsylvania, noted for his contributions to the flora of Florida  +
  • For Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, 1870–1942, collector and botanist in western North America  +
  • For Adolphe Brongniart, 1801–1876, French botanist and student of Rhamnaceae  +
  • For Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun, 1805 – 1877, Director of the Berlin Botanic Garden  +
  • For Alvaro Reynoso, 1829–1888, Cuban chemist and agriculturalist, who revolutionized the sugar industry  +
  • For Andrew Carnegie, 1835–1919, Scottish-born American philanthropist and patron for systematic studies of cacti  +
  • For Anna Paulowna Romanov, 1795–1865, Grand Duchess of Russia and daughter of Czar Paul I, Hereditary Princess of the Netherlands  +
  • For Antoine Gouan, 1733–1821, French botanist and ichthyologist at Montpellier, director of botanical garden in 1767, later professor of botany and medicine  +
  • For Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, 1747–1827 French botanist and monographer of Fragaria  +
  • For Antoni de Meca-Caçador-Cardona i de Beatrin, 1726–1788, benefactor of Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona  +
  • For Antonio Condal, 1745–1804, Spanish physician who accompanied Peter Loefling on a journey up the Orinoco River  +
  • For Archibald Menzies, 1754–1842, Scottish physician and naturalist with Vancouver Expedition 1790–1795, whobrought the type species from the Northwest Coast  +
  • For Arthur Herman Holmgren, 1912–1992, Noel Herman Holmgren, b. 1937, and Patricia Kern Holmgren, b. 1940, American botanists, and Greek anthos, flower  +
  • For August Fendler, 1813–1883, German-born plant collector in North and South America, early botanical explorer of southwestern United States  +
  • For August Fendler, 1813–1883, botanical collector, and Latin -ella, honor  +
  • For Auguste Henri Cornut de Coincy, 1837–1903, Spanish botanist, discoverer of first species described  +
  • For Auguste Jean Marie Bachelot de la Pylaie, 1786–1856, French bryologist  +
  • For Augustin Friedrich Walther, 1688 – 1746, German physician, anatomist, and botanist at Leipzig University  +
  • For Augustus Gottlieb Oemler, 1773 – 1852 Savannah pharmacist and entomologist  +
  • For Aven Nelson, 1859–1952, American botanist who studied the flora of Wyoming and neighboring states  +
  • For Barclay Hazard, 1852–1938, amateur botanist from Santa Barbara, California  +
  • For Baron W. F. von Karvinsky, 1780–1855, botanical collector in Brazil and Mexico  +
  • For Bartholomaeus Carrichter, sixteenth-century herbalist, alchemist, and physician to Emperor Maximilian II  +
  • For Bassiani Carminati, eighteenth-century Italian author of book on hygiene, therapeutics, and materia medica  +
  • For Benjamin Franklin, 1706–1790, American statesman, diplomat, physicist, man of letters  +
  • For C. F. Lessing, 1809–1862, German-born botanist, his nephew K. F. Lessing, and grandfather G. E. Lessing  +
  • For Carl Wilhelm Krug, 1833–1898, major collaborator with Urban on the West Indian flora, and Greek dendron, tree  +
  • For Carlo Antonio Lodovico Bellardi, 1741–1826, professor of botany at University of Turin  +
  • For Carlo Giuseppe Bertero, 1789–1831, Italian physician and botanist who settled in Chile  +
  • For Carlo Giuseppe, Conte di Firmian, 1717 – 1782 Austrian statesman and Governor-General of Lombardy  +
  • For Charles A. Mosier, 1871–1936, first superintendent of Royal Palm State Park, Florida’s first state park (now Everglades National Park)  +
  • For Charles Deering, frequent sponsor of J. K. Small in his botanical explorations  +
  • For Charles Léo Lesquereux, 1806 – 1889, Swiss-American bryologist and paleontol o gist  +
  • For Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeldt, 1742–1792, Austrian botanist/horticulturist  +
  • For Christian Gottlieb Ludwig, 1709–1773, botanist and physician of Leipzig  +
  • For Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede, 1798–1836, a German naturalist and plant collector in Mexico  +
  • For Christoph Entzelt (Christophorus Enzelius), 1517–1583, German naturalist  +
  • For Clarence Luther Herrick, 1858–1903, geologist and botanical collector in New Mexico, president of University of New Mexico  +
  • For Claude Gay, 1800–1873, French author of Flora of Chile, and Greek phyton, plant  +
  • For Claudius Galenius, a.d. 130–200, Roman physician and writer on medicine  +
  • For Constantin Samuel Rafinesque, 1783–1840, naturalist and polymath who traveled widely in nineteenth-century America  +
  • For Cristóbal Velez, ca. 1710–1753, a friend of the botanist Pehr Loefling  +
  • For D. B. Pascal, French/Italian physician/botanist, once director of royal garden at Parma  +
  • For David Douglas, 1798–1834, Scottish botanist and collector in northwestern North America  +
  • For Domenico Nocca, 1758–1841, Italian clergyman, botanist, director of botanic garden at Pavia  +
  • For Dominico Cirillo, 1739–1799, Italian physician and professor of natural history, University of Naples  +
  • For Edward H. Harriman, 1848–1909, American financier and patron of science  +
  • For Edward Palmer, 1831–1911, American field botanist who collected the type material  +
  • For Edwin Blake Payson, 1893–1927, American botanist and first monographer of Lesquerella  +
  • For Edwin P. James, 1797–1861, American physician and naturalist on the Stephen Harriman Long expeditions of 1819 & 1820  +
  • For Eli Ives, 1779–1861, professor of pediatrics, materia medica, and botany at Yale University  +
  • For Eric Hultén, 1894–1981, Swedish botanist, specialist of the circumpolar flora  +
  • For Ernst Ludwig Heim, 1747–1834, medical doctor in Berlin renowned for establishing sanitary health practices and said to have introduced Alexander von Humboldt to botany  +
  • For Eugenio Montaña y Roldan Otumbensi, who evidently was heroic in a battle on the plains of Apam  +
  • For F. G. J. von Sachs, 1832–1897, German plant physiologist, noted by Grisebach to be “ingeniosi”  +
  • For Ferdinand Ignatius Xavier Rugel, 1806–1878, original collector of the species  +
  • For Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer, 1801–1879, German expatriate, botanist/intellect, settled in Texas  +
  • For Franz Balthasar von Lindern, 1682–1755, French botanist and physician  +
  • For Franz Gabriel de Bray, 1765–1832, French ambassador to Bavaria, head of Regensberg Botanical Society  +
  • For Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, 1759–1823, Austrian soldier and botanist  +
  • For Frederick Hinsdale Horsford, 1855 – 1923, Vermont farmer and commercial seedsman, and probably also for Eben Norton Horsford, 1818 – 1893, chemist  +
  • For Frederick Traugott Pursh, 1774 – 1820, German botanist, student of North American flora  +
  • For Friedrich (later Frederick) Adolph Wislizenus, 1810–1889, botanical collector in southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico  +
  • For Friedrich Benjamin Lütke (later russified to Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke), 1797 – 1882 Russian sea captain and Arctic explorer  +
  • For Frédéric Karl Gochnat, d. 1816, a botanist who worked with Cichorieae  +
  • For Félix Jafuell, 1857–1931, clergyman who collected plants in South America, and Greek bryum, moss  +
  • For G. W. Leibnitz, 1646–1716, philosopher, political advisor, mathematician, and scientist  +
  • For Giovanni Battista Triumfetti, 1658 – 1708, Italian botanist, director of the botanical garden in Rome  +
  • For Gottfried F. Fleischmann, 1777–1850, teacher of Schultz-Bipontinus at Erlangen  +