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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  +
• 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  +