Genera within a family

acros, = at the end, either outermost, or at the top;
acros, = at the tip, end, summit;
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
(flower solitary on a flower stalk)
(LS, BL, Le)

aei-, = ever, always, for ever;
zoos, = alive, living.
(ability to survive under difficult conditions)
(LS, Le)

carpos, = fruit;
anthos, = flower.
(allusion rather vague)
(referring to the open fruit which looks like a star-shaped flower when open)
(BL, Le, Cl)

carpos, = fruit;
brotos, = blood from a wound, gore.
brota, =edible things.
(fruit can be eaten)
(LS, Le)

kleros, = a lot; chance.
-etum, = place dominated by a given plant.
(a lot: twigs, potsherds, or even a clod of earth was used for the purpose. In Homer each hero marks his own lot, and they are thrown into a helmet; the first which came out was the winning lot.)
(grows in disturbed sites)
(LS, BL, Le)

conos, = a pine-cone, a fir-cone;
-icus, = indicates ‘belonging to’;
(cone-shaped)
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
(shape of the capsule)
(LS, BL, Le)

delos, = visible, clear;
Delos, = the smallest of the Cyclades, birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.
sperma, = that which is sown, seed.
(LS)

dora, = a skin, hide;
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
Honouring Dorothea Schwantes, the mother of Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes (1881-1960), ** German botanist, archeologist and professor of pre-history, expert in the Mesembryanthemaceae, author of Flowering stones and mid-day flowers.
(LS, Le, Ch)

drosos, = dew;
anthemon, anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
(dewy leaf-glands)
(LS, Le)

erepto, erepho = to roof over: to crown.
(stamens are concealed by the staminodes)

(LS, Le)

For the Greco-Roman Claudius Galen, c. 130-200 AD.**
(Ch)

lampro-, = bright, brilliant, radiant;
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
(LS)

os, oris, = the mouth;
-ulum, = diminutive;
osculor, = to kiss;
-arius, = indicates connection or possession.
(fanciful likeness of the toothed leaves)
(ld, BL, Le)

phyllon, = a leaf;
bolos, bolus, = a throw or cast.
(shedding of deciduous leaves of some species)
(BL, ld, Le)

prenes, = bent forward, bent-foremost, downwards;
-ium, = ‘characteristic of’, hence indicates connection or resemblance.
(creeping habit of the plant)
(LS, BL, Le)

For Ernst Julius Rusch (1867-1957).**
(Ch)

tetros, = four;
gony, = the knee;
(angled, angular; knee, node (of grass))
-ius, = means ‘characteristic of’, hence indicates connexion or resemblance.
(shape of the fruit)
(LS, BL, Le)

aethes, = unusual, strange;
phyllon, = a leaf.
(LS)

apateo, = to cheat, trick, outwit, beguile;
-ius, = means ‘characteristic of’, hence indicates connexion or resemblance.
(likeness to the genus Hymenogyne before the flower has opened)
(LS, BL, Le)

skia, = a shadow, shade;
phyton, = a plant, tree.
(preferred habitat)
(LS, Le)

scopelos, = a look-out place, a crag or headland; generally, a high rock, peak;
genos, = race, descent (as in 'I am of ... by descent'); kind, genus.
(preferred habitat)
(S. verruculata, grows among rocks in the mountains)
(LS, Le, Cl)

mesembria, = midday, noon, when the sun is at the meridian;
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
(flowers need midday sunshine to open)

(LS, Le)