Genera within a family

Family: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

COLCHICACEAE (G)
Gloriosa Family (Wf)

Colchis, = a province in Asia, east of the Black Sea, celebrated on account of the golden fleece and Medea;
-icus, = indicates ‘belonging to’.
colchicon, = meadow-saffron.
colchicum, = a plant with a poisonous root, C. auctumnale.
The name Colchis had reference to the poisonous arts of the legendary Medea** of Colchis.
(Ox, BL, ld)

BAEOMETRA (G)
Beetle Lily (Le)

baios, = little, slight, small, humble;
metra, meter, = matrix, the womb.
(fruit a capsule)
(LS, Le)

COLCHICUM (G)
Men-in-a-boat (Wf) Cup and Saucer, Patrysblom (Le)

Colchis, = a province in Asis, east of the Black Sea, celebrated on account of the golden fleece and Medea;
-icus, = indicates ‘belonging to’.
colchicon, = meadow-saffron.
colchicum, = a plant with a poisonous root: C. auctumnale.
The name Colchis had reference to the poisonous arts of the legendary Medea of Colchis**.
(Ox, BL, ld)

ORNITHOGLOSSUM (G)
Snake Lily (Le)

ornis, = a bird;
ornith-,= pertaining to birds, bird-like;
glossa, = the tongue.
(narrow tepals)
(LS, BL, Le)

WURMBEA
Spike Lily (Le)

For Christoph Carl Friedrich von Wurmb (1742 - 1782).**
(Ch)

ANDROCYMBIUM (G, La)
Men-in-a-boat (Wf) Cup and Saucer, Patrysblom (Le)

Now COLCHICUM.
aner, andrus, = man, of a man.
cymba, = a boat, skiff; (the boat of Charon which transported the dead);
-ium, = ‘characteristic of’, hence indicates connection or resemblance.
(LS, ld, BL)

ONIXOTIS (G)
Water Phlox (Le)

onyx, = in plural, ‘the talons of a bird of prey’; in singular, of beasts of prey, ‘a claw’;
ous, otis, = an ear.
(clawed base of petals)

(LS, BL, Le)