Property:Etymology
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Latin cochlear, spoon, alluding to leaf shape of some species +
Distorted Greek kodon, bell, and phoras, bearing, alluding to capsules with bell-shaped calyptrae +
Greek koilos, hollow, and glossa, tongue +
Greek kilos (Latin coelus), hollow, and phragmos, partition, alluding to deep pits on sides of fruit septum where seeds are located +
For Auguste Henri Cornut de Coincy, 1837–1903, Spanish botanist, discoverer of first species described +
Greek koleos, sheath, and gyne, female, alluding to thin staminal tubelike sheath surrounding ovary and style +
Latin coluber, racer snake, perhaps alluding to twisting of deep furrows on stems of some species +
Columbia (River), and doria, an early name for goldenrods +
Greek komaros, arbutus, and staphyle, cluster of grapes, alluding to resemblance of fruit clusters to those of Arbutus unedo +
Latin, derived from a name applied by Pliny the Elder to a climbing plant of uncertain identity +
Greek kommi, gum, and carpos, fruit, in reference to gummy-glandular fruit +
For Antonio Condal, 1745–1804, Spanish physician who accompanied Peter Loefling on a journey up the Orinoco River +
Latin conus, cone, and genus Mitella, alluding to hypanthium shape and general resemblance +
Greek konos, cone, and karpos, fruit, alluding to shape of densely clustered fruits +
Greek konos, cone, and kline, bed, alluding to conic receptacles +
Greek conos, cone, and pholis, scale, alluding to conelike inflorescences +
Greek konos, cone, and stoma, opening, alluding to operculum +
For Hermann Conring, 1606–1681, German professor of medicine and philosophy at Helmstedt +
For Lincoln Constance, 1909–2001, Californian botanist +
Latin convallis, valley +
Greek korallion, coral, and rhiza, root, referring to coral-like appearance of branching, underground rhizome +
Greek kordyle, club, and anthos, flower, alluding to somewhat clavate corolla +
Greek koreos, bug, and karpos, fruit, alluding to pectinately winged cypselae of original species +
Greek korethron, broom, and gyne, female, alluding to style-branch appendages +
Greek coris, bug, and spermum, seed +
Latin corrigia, shoelace, perhaps alluding to the slender stems +
Greek coryph, head/helmet/crown, and Greek anthos, flower, refe rring to the apical location of flowers in contrast with the ring of lateral flowers in the related genus Mammillaria +
Greek koskinon, sieve, and odon, tooth, alluding to peristome +
Latin cotoneum, quince, and - aster, incomplete resemblance, alluding to similarity of leaves in some species +
Greek kotyledon, a cup-shaped hollow, alluding to leaf form of a plant now placed in Umbilicus +
Greek Krataigon, thorn, from Greek kratos, strength, and akis, sharp tip, alluding to thorns of some species +
Greek cratos, strong, and neuron, nerve, alluding to leaf costa +
Greek krepis, slipper or sandal, possibly alluding to shape of cypselae, a name of a plant in writings by Theophrastus +
Greek krokos, saffron, and anthemon, flower, alluding to petal color +
Greek krokis, downy fibers of woolen cloth, and - idium, diminutive, alluding to axillary tomentum +
Greek krokos, crocus, and osme, scent, because the dried flowers boiled in water smell like the spice saffron obtained from that plant +
Greek kropion, scythe, and ptilon, wing or feather, perhaps alluding to perceived winglike or featherlike appearance of curved, pinnately toothed leaves, the allusion to “feather” explicit by Rafinesque, “col. feather,” but not explained +
Greek krossos, fringe or tassel, and -idion, diminutive, alluding to tassel-like fringe on adaxial surface of costa +
Greek krossos, fringe, and petalon, petal, alluding to fimbriate petals of the type species +
Greek krossos, fringe or tassel, and soma, body, alluding to aril +
Greek cryptos, hidden, and gramme, line, referring to the ± marginal soral bands hidden by revolute margins +
Greek ktenos, comb, and lepis, scale, apparently alluding to stiffly spreading cilia on margins of stipules +
Latin cuniculus, rabbit, and tinus, shrub, thus rabbit brush, commonly used name for species of Chrysothamnus in the broad sense +
For William C. Cusick, 1842–1922, Oregon plant collector +
Greek kyklos, circle, and antheros, blooming, alluding to single, ringlike stamen +
Greek kyklos, circle, and diktyon, net, alluding to large laminal cells +
Greek cyclo, circular, and pogon, beard, perhaps in reference to pubescent bases of sepals of the type species +
Latin cylindrus, cylinder, and Opuntia, the genus from which this segregate was removed +
Latin cymbalum, rounded, concave, and -aria, resemblance, alluding to leaf shape +
Greek kyma, wave, and phyll, leaf, in reference to the undulate-margined leaves +
Greek kynos, dog, odon, tooth, and -ium, diminutive, alluding to peristome +
Greek kynos, dog, and phallos, penis, alluding to brilliant red color inside rupturing fruits, which reminded early botanists of a dog’s penis +
Greek, kyphos, bent, humped, and meris, part, in reference to the gibbous fruit +
Greek Kypris, Aphrodite, and Latin pes, foot, perhaps an orthographic error for Greek pedilon, slipper +
Greek kypsele, a hollow box or chest, such as a beehive, which the capsule is thought to resemble +
For Dominico Cirillo, 1739–1799, Italian physician and professor of natural history, University of Naples +
Greek kyrtos, curved or arched, and hypnon, moss, alluding to incurved dry leaves +
Greek kyrtos, curved or arched, and mnion, moss, alluding to capsules +
Greek kyrtos, curved swelling, and podium, foot, probably alluding to conspicuous column foot +
Greek kystos, bladder, and pteris, fern, alluding to the indusium, which is inflated when young +
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Greek dakryo, weep, and phyllon, leaf, alluding to tearlike appearance of proximal prorulae of basal laminal cells +
Greek dactylos, finger, and rhiza, root, in reference to the fingerlike tuberoids of the more primitive species +
For Jacques Daléchamps (or D’Aléchamps), 1513–1588, French surgeon and botanist +
Greek, ancient name +
For William Darlington, 1782–1863, Philadelphia botanist +
Greek dasy- , thick- or dense-, and lirion, white lily, alluding to the compact arrangement of flowers in the inflorescence +
Cited by Dioscorides as Roman name for a species of Catananche Linnaeus (Asteraceae), applied here possibly alluding to similarity +
Greek dekas, ten, and odon, tooth, alluding to combination of five sepals and five alternating epicalyx segments +
For Charles Deering, frequent sponsor of J. K. Small in his botanical explorations +
Greek deire, neck, and gyne, pistil or woman, referring to sepals that sit on top of ovary and form a necklike extension +
For “Dom. Delaire,” who sent a specimen to Lemaire from a garden in the Orléans district of France +
Greek delos, visible, and sperma, seed, in reference to the seeds being exposed as the fruits dehisce +
Greek delphinion, derived from delphin, possibly for fancied resemblance of flowers of some species to classical sculptures of dolphins +
Greek dendron, tree, and genus Alsia, suggesting a dendroid Alsia +
Greek dendro, tree, and phylax, epiphyte or guardian, in reference to the epiphytic habit +
Named after A. W. Dennstaedt, 1826, German botanist +
Greek depas, saucer, referring to the saucerlike indusium of the type species, Deparia prolifera, which is aberrant in the genus +
For François Descurain, 1658–1740, French botanist and apothecary +
For Johann van der Deutz, ca. 1743–1784, Dutch merchant and patron of Carl Peter Thunberg +
Greek diamorphe, contrary or different form, alluding to fruit compared with that of related genera +
Latin Diana, Roman sylvan goddess, and - ella, diminutive suffix, alluding to the forest habitat and small stature +
Greek diapero, to pass through, alluding to pseudo-polytomous branching pattern (“proliferous inflorescence”) of type species +
Greek di - two, chaite, long hair, and - phore, bearer or carrier, alluding to the two awnlike pappus elements +
Greek dichelos, split hoof, and stemma, crown or garland, alluding to the bifid perianth appendages that form a corona +
Greek dicha, in two, and odontos, tooth, alluding to partially divided peristome teeth +
Greek di, two, chroma, color, and anthos, flower, indicating 2-colored nature of flowers +
Greek di, two, and koris, bug, alluding to the two, “buglike” cypselae of the original species +
Genus Dicranum and Latin -ella, diminutive +
Greek dicranon, pitchfork, and odon, tooth, alluding to forked peristome teeth +
Greek dikranos, twice-forked, and pteris, fern, derived from pteron, feather, in reference to the leaf architecture +
Greek dicranos, two-headed, and stegos, sheath or cover, alluding to two-lobed calyx +
Genera Dicranum and Weissia, alluding to relationship with Dicranum and fancied resemblance to Weissia +
Greek di -, two, and etos, year, alluding to biennial duration of the plants first named by Nuttall +
Latin digitalis, finger of a glove, alluding to resemblance of tubular flowers to glove fingers +
Latin dimorphus, having two forms, and carpus, fruit, alluding to production of two fruit types in some species +
Greek di- , two, morphe, shape, and theca, case or container, alluding to two forms of cypselae within each head +
Greek Dione, mother of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love and beauty whose Roman name was Venus +
Greek Dios, Zeus, and pyros, grain, Theophrastean fruit name of unknown application appropriated by Linnaeus +
Diphasium, a generic name, and -astrum, incomplete resemblance +
Greek dis, twice, and phyllon, leaf +
Greek di-, two, and physkion, little gut, alluding to double bladder of spore sac and capsule wall +
Greek dis-, two, and plakos, placenta, alluding to splitting of capsule into valves bearing parietal placentae +
Greek diplo- , double, and taxis, arrangement, alluding to number of seed rows in each locule of fruit +
Greek distichos, in two rows, alluding to leaves +
Greek di-, two, and trichos, hair, alluding to peristome split longitudinally into two segments +
Greek ditry, two or three, and syn, together, alluding to number and union of stamens +
For Manfred Dittrich, b. 1934, German botanist +
Greek dodeka, twelve, and hema, dart or javelin, alluding to involucral awns +
Greek dodeka, twelve, and theoi, gods, fanciful name given by Pliny to a primrose purportedly protected by the gods +
For Ignatz Doellinger (1770–1841), German botanist +
For James Donald Richards, 1920 – 1980, American bryologist +
For David Douglas, 1798–1834, Scottish botanist and collector in northwestern North America +
Greek drepane, sickle, and clados, branch, alluding to curvature of branch leaves +
Greek drosos, dew, and anthos, flower, in reference to the glistening papillae +
For Thomas Drummond, 1780 – 1835, Scottish botanist who collected extensively on two expeditions to North America +
Greek drymos, woods, and kallos, beauty +
Greek drys, oak, and petalon, leaf, alluding to resemblance of petal shape to leaves of some oaks +
Greek drys, tree, and pteris, fern +
Generic name Dyssodia and Greek - opsis, resembling +
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For Alice Eastwood, 1859–1953, western American botanist +
Greek ekkremes, hanging, and -idium, diminutive, alluding to pendulous capsule +
Greek echinos, hedgehog, an d Cactus, an old genus name +
Greek echinos, spine, and Cereus, a genus of columnar cacti +
Greek echinos, hedgehog, and kystis, bladder, alluding to prickly, hollow fruits +
Greek echius, rough husk, and doros, leathern bottle, alluding to ovaries, which in some species are armed with persistent styles, forming prickly head of fruit +
Greek echinos, hedgehog, and masto, breast, referring to the spiny tubercles +
Greek echinos, hedgehog, and pepon, melon or pumpkin, alluding to prickly fruits +
Greek echinos, sea-urchin or hedgehog, and phyllon, leaf, alluding to spinose proximal leaf margins +
For Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, 1812–1881 Irish botanist and British civil servant in Bengal +
for Johann A. F. Eichhorn, 1779–1856, Prussian statesman +
Greek heleios, dwelling in a marsh, and charis, grace +
For Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, 1870–1942, collector and botanist in western North America +
Greek eleutheros, free, and plectron, spur, referring to free spur of sepal +
Generic name Encelia and Greek -opsis, resembling +
Greek enkyklos, to encircle, referring to the lateral lobes of the lip, which encircle the column +
For George Engelmann, 1809–1884, German-American physician and botanist +
Greek entos, inside, and odon, tooth, alluding to peristome teeth inserted below capsule mouth +
Genus Entodon and - opsis, resembling, alluding to similarity +
Greek entosthi, within, and odon, tooth, alluding to position of teeth inside capsule +
Greek epi -, on, and dendron, tree, alluding to the epiphytic habit +
Greek epi, on, lobos, pod or capsule, and iov (ion), violet, alluding to violet flower at apex of fruit +
Greek epi, upon, and phyllon, a leaf, referring to flowers borne on leaves, actually phylloclades, leaflike stems +
Greek epi, upon, and pterigion, little wing, alluding to small dorsal leaves +
Greek epi, upon, thele, nipple, and anthos, flower, describing flower position near tubercle apex +
Greek epi-, upon, and xiphos, sword, alluding to sword-shaped persistent style +
Latin equis, horse, and seta, bristle, referring to the coarse black roots of E. fluviatile +
A name mentioned by Dioscorides, presumably for a plant now referable to Senecio or a related genus +
Greek eremos, desert, and krinon, lily +
Greek eremia, desert, and thera from genus Oenothera, probably alluding to habitat and likeness +
Generic name Erica and Greek meros, part or portion, alluding to resemblance of leaves +
Greek eri, early, or erio, woolly, and geron, old man, perhaps alluding to pappus, which becomes gray and accrescent in some species, or to solitary, woolly heads of some of species +
Greek erion, wool, and botrys, bunch of grapes, alluding to woolly inflorescences +
derived from Greek erion, wool, and caulos, stalk +
Greek erion, wool, and gony, knee, alluding to the hairy nodes of the species first described, E. tomentosum +
Greek erion, wool or cotton, and phoros, bearing +
Greek erion, wool, and phyllon, leaf +
Genus Eruca and Latin - astrum, resembling +
Greek eryso, to ward off or to cure, alluding to the supposed medicinal properties of some species +
Greek erythros, red, and anthe, bloom, alluding to corolla color of type species, E. cardinalis +
Greek erythros, red, alluding to the pink to purple flowers of Erythronium dens-canis +
For Johann F. G. von Eschscholtz, 1793-1831, Estonian physician and biologist who traveled with Chamisso on the Romanzoff (or Kotzebue) Expedition to the Pacific Coast +
Greek eu, well, and kalyptos, covered, alluding to deciduous calyptra covering stamens in flower bud +
Greek eu -, good or true, and chiton, tunic, alluding to ‘close-fitting’ clusters of bracts subtending clusters of heads +
Greek eu-, good or well, and klados, branch, alluding to well-developed whorls of stem leaves +
Greek eu-, good or pretty, and knide, nettle, alluding to stinging trichomes and showy flowers +
Greek eu, good or well, and kommi, gum, alluding to abundant latex in younger tissues of plant +
Greek eu-, good, and onyma, name, apparently applied ironically, the genus having had the bad reputation of poisoning cattle +
For Mithridates Eupator, King of Pontus, 132–63 B.C. +
Greek euphraino, to delight, alluding to supposed improvements in vision from the application of E. officinalis +
Genus Eurhynchium and Latin - astrum, incomplete resemblance +
Greek eurys, wide, and baios, few, perhaps alluding to the few, wide-spreading ray florets +
Alexander’s rock aster +
Greek eu- , well, truly, and trocho- , wheel-like, alluding to whorled leaves +
Greek exo -, outside, and chorde, string, alluding to free placentary cords external to carpels +
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Latin fagus, beech, and Greek pyrus, wheat, alluding to resemblance of the achene to a beech-nut +
Classical Latin name, from Greek figos, an oak with edible acorns, probably from Greek fagein, to eat +
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 +
Latin ferus, fierce or wild, referring to the horrid spines, and Cactus, the genus from which this segregate was removed +
Latin filum, thread, and - ago, possessing or resembling, alluding to abundant cottony indument +
Latin filum, thread, and pendulus, hanging, alluding to root tubers of F. vulgaris hanging together with threads +
Latin fimbria, fringe, and stylus, style +
For Carlo Giuseppe, Conte di Firmian, 1717 – 1782 Austrian statesman and Governor-General of Lombardy +
For Étienne de Flacourt, 1607–1660, Governor of Madagascar +
For Gottfried F. Fleischmann, 1777–1850, teacher of Schultz-Bipontinus at Erlangen +
For Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens, 1794–1867, physiologist, perpetual secretary, Académie des Sciences, Paris +
Latin, of a spring, alluding to aquatic habitat +
For Johan Erik Forsström, 1775 – 1824, Swedish pastor and plant collector +
for Dr. John Fothergill, (1712-1780), London physician and patron of early American botany +
Latin fraga, fragrance, and aria, possession, alluding to sweet-smelling strawberry fruit +
Probably from Latin frango, to break, and -ula, diminutive, alluding to brittleness of twigs +
For Benjamin Franklin, 1706–1790, American statesman, diplomat, physicist, man of letters +
for F. H. T. Freese, d. 1876, student of C. F. Ecklon, 1795–1868, who first used the name (as Freesea), although in a different sense +
For John Charles Frémont, 1813 – 1890, U.S. military explorer and politician, and Greek dendron, tree +
Latin, fritillus, checkered, alluding to the markings on the tepals of many species +
for Joseph Aloys von Froelich, 1766–1841, German physician and botanist who published on Sonchus, Hieracium, and Gentiana +
for Antoine François de Fourcroy, 1755–1809, French chemist who helped establish the system of chemical nomenclature +
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For M. Gaillard de Merentonneau (or Charentonneau?), eighteenth-century French patron of botanists +
For Mariano Martínez de Galinsoga, 1766–1797, court physician and director of the Botanic Garden, Madrid +
Greek gamos, union, and chaete, loose and flowing hair, alluding to basally connate pappus bristles +
For Abram P. Garber, 1838–1881, of Columbia, Pennsylvania, noted for his contributions to the flora of Florida +
For Nicholas Garry, 1782–1856, deputy-governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1822–1835, diarist of his 1821 travels in the Northwest Territories, friend and benefactor of David Douglas +
For Jean-François Gaulthier, 1708–1756, botanist and physician of Québec +
For Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac, 1778–1850, French chemist +
For Claude Gay, 1800–1873, French author of Flora of Chile, and Greek phyton, plant +
Latin gemma, bud, and Greek bryon, moss, alluding to asexual reproduction +
Greek ge, earth, and kaulos, stalk, alluding to slightly subterranean and stemlike rhizome +
Greek geuo or geyo, to give relish, alluding to quality of roots of St. Benedict's herb, G. urbanum +
Latin glandula, gland, and Cactus, an old genus name +
Genus Globulina and Latin -ella, diminutive +
Greek glochis, projecting point or barb on an arrowhead, and -idion, smaller or little, alluding to pointed extension of anther connectives +
Greek glossa, tongue, and petalon, spreading, alluding to outspreading tongue-like petals +
Greek glossa, tongue, and stigma, spot, alluding to ligulate stigma +
Greek glyptos, carved, and pleura, rib, alluding to cypselae +
Greek gnaphalion, a downy plant, the name anciently applied to these or similar plants +
For William Gollan, 1855–1905, Scottish superintendent of Edinburgh Botanic Garden and collector in Kashmir +
Latin gossypion, cotton, and Greek anthemon, flower, presumably in reference to the villous tepals +
For Antoine Gouan, 1733–1821, French botanist and ichthyologist at Montpellier, director of botanical garden in 1767, later professor of botany and medicine +
Greek graptos, marked, and petalon, leaf, alluding to petals +
Latin gratia, graceful, and -ola, diminutive, alluding to medicinal qualities of some species +
for Asa Gray, 1810–1888, botany professor at Harvard, for many years the pre-eminent American botanist +
For Abel Joel Grout, 1867 – 1947, American bryologist +
Spanish mispronunciation of "Huaicum," Bahamas Islands Taino Amerindians' name for the tree and the medicine derived from its resin +
For Antoine Guillemin, 1796–1842, French botanist, author, and explorer +
For John Gundlach, 1810–1896, naturalist and traveler +
Possibly for Pedro Gutierrez, Spanish nobleman, not specified by Lagasca +
Greek gymnos, naked, and anthos, flower, alluding to highly reduced or absent perianth +
Greek gymnos, naked, and karpos, fruit, referring to the absence of indusia +
Greek gymnos, naked, and sperma, seed, alluding to epappose cypselae +
Genus Gymnostomum and Latin -ella, diminutive +
Greek gymnos, nude, and stoma, mouth, alluding to lack of peristome +
Genus Gynandra (Orchidaceae), and Greek opsis, resemblance +
Greek gypsos, gypsum, and philios, loving, alluding to habitat of some species +
Greek gyrus, circle, and genus Weissia, alluding to resemblance and well-developed, persistent annulus +
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Greek habros, delicate or splendid, and anthos, flower +
For Ingebrigt Severin Hagen, 1852 – 1917, Norwegian bryologist +
Greek halimos, of salt, and lobos, rounded protuberance, alluding to superficial resemblance of fruit indumentum to salt +
Greek halos, sea, and ragis, grape-berry, alluding to maritime habitat and bunched fruits +
Latin hamatus, hooked, in reference to the hooked central spines, and Cactus, an old genus name +
Latin hamatus, hooked, and caulis, stem, alluding to curved stem apices +
Greek, haplos, simple, and kladion, branchlet, alluding to 1-pinnate branching +
Greek haplos, single, and odontos, tooth, alluding to single peristome +
Greek haploos, simple, and esthes, raiment +
for Roland MacMillan Harper, 1878–1966, southeastern American botanist, and Greek kallos, beautiful, alluding to the attractive flower +
For Edward H. Harriman, 1848–1909, American financier and patron of science +
For William H. Harris, 1860–1920, F.L.S., British botanist and prolific collector of Jamaican plants +
for William H. Harris, 1860–1920, Superintendent of Public Gardens and Plantations of Jamaica +
For Samuel Hart Wright, 1825–1905, collector of the specimens from which the genus was described +
For S. Clinton Hastings of San Francisco, supporter of S. Watson et al. (1876–1880) on California botany +
Greek hecastos, each, and cleios, to shut up, alluding to one floret enclosed in each involucre +
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 +
Generic name Helianthus and Latin - ella, diminutive +
Greek helios, sun, and anthos, flower, alluding to heads +
Greek helios, sun, and chrysos, gold, and helichrysos, Greek name for a local species of Asteraceae +
Greek helios, sun, and - merus, part +
Greek, helleborus, ancient name for this plant +
Greek hemeros, day, and kallos, beauty, alluding to the showy flowers, which bloom and wilt in one day +
Generic name Hemizonia and Latin - ella, diminutive +
Greek hemi -, half, and zona, belt or girdle, alluding to cypselae half enfolded by phyllaries +
Greek henicos, single, alluding to single, unbranched stems arising from creeping primary stems +
For Roger Hennedy, 1809–1877, Scottish phycologist +
for William Herbert, 1778–1847, prominent British botanist and specialist in bulbous plants +
For Louis Antoine Prospere Herissant, 1745 – 1769, French physician, naturalist, and poet +
for Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt, 1760–1833, German botanist +
Latin hernia, rupture, and -aria, pertaining to, alluding to use in treatment of hernias +
Greek herpes, snake, and neuron, nerve, alluding to terminally strongly sinuous costa +
For Clarence Luther Herrick, 1858–1903, geologist and botanical collector in New Mexico, president of University of New Mexico +
For Theodor Herzog, 1880–1961, German botanist, and Latin, - ella, diminutive +
Greek hesperos, western, and aloe, a kind of plant +
Greek hesperos, western, and genus name Evax, alluding to first discoveries from western limits of Evax distribution +
Genus Hesperis and Greek anthos, flower, alluding to resemblance of flowers +
Greek hesperos, evening, alluding to time when flowers of some species are most fragrant +
Greek hesperos, western, and kallos, beauty +
Greek hesperos, west, and knide, nettle +
Greek hesperos, western, and linon, flax +
Greek hesperos, evening or western, and mecon, poppy +
Greek heteros -, different, and anthemis, a genus name +
Greek heteros, different, and antheros, anther +
Greek heteros, differing, and kladion, branchlet, alluding to growth form +
Greek heteros, different, and melon, apple, alluding to low stamen number +
Greek heteros, different, and phyllon, leaf, alluding to somewhat different stem and branch leaves +
Greek heteros, different, and pteron, wing, alluding to dorsal wing of samara being thickened on abaxial edge and bent upward, opposite of arrangement in other genera with dorsal-winged samaras +
Greek hetero-, other or different from, and genus Savia +
Greek heteros, different, and thece, container, alluding to dimorphic cypselae +
For Johann Heinrich von Heucher, 1677–1747, Austrian-born medical botanist and professor of medicine at Wittenberg, later Dresden +
Greek hex, six, and alectryon, rooster, alluding to six longitudinal fleshy crests on the floral lip +
Greek hexastylis, with six styles +
Greek hippeus, rider, and astron, star, the allusion obscure +
For Hippocrates, ca. 460–370 BC, Greek physician +
Greek hippos, horse, and mania, fury, alluding to effect of the caustic latex on horses +
Greek hippos, of horse, and phaeos, splendor, probably alluding to ancient use of silvery leaves as horse fodder to supposedly make their coats shine or boost their energy +
For Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeldt, 1742–1792, Austrian botanist/horticulturist +
For William Welles Hollister, 1818–1886, California rancher +
For Arthur Herman Holmgren, 1912–1992, Noel Herman Holmgren, b. 1937, and Patricia Kern Holmgren, b. 1940, American botanists, and Greek anthos, flower +
Greek holo -, whole, complete, and karphos, chaff, alluding to paleate receptacles +