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  • 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  +
  • 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  +