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  • 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"  +
  • 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  +