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  • 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  +
  • 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  +