Genera within a family

Resembling Chenopodium, weedy herbs from Europe and Asia.
Chenopodium =
chēn, = a gander, goose;
pous, podos, = a foot;
-opsis, = aspect, appearance, hence ‘resemblance’.
(Le, LS, BL)

di-, = two;
dis-, = twice, double;
askon, = a leathern bag, a wineskin.
(two lateral corolla pouches)
(LS, Le)

di-, = two;
dis-, = twice, double;
schiz, schizo, = to split, cleave;
(split, cleft deeply divided)
-ma, = often indicated the result of an action.
(divided corolla lobe)
(LS, BL, Le)

For Count L. de Freylino (Freylin).**
(Ch)

For Johann Christian Hebenstreit (1720-1791).**
(Ch)

(h)emi-, = half;
meros, = part, share, portion.
(allusion unclear)
(the flower is cut away on one side, that is, lacking a spur)

(Ox, LS, Le, Cl)

(h)us, (h)uos-, = a swine, pig, boar or sow;
agchone, = throttleing, strangling, hanging; a rope for hanging, halter.
ancho, = strangle; hence ‘–anche’, as ending of names of poisonous plants.
(a term used for plant parasites that eventually kill their hosts)
(LS, BL, Le)

For James Britten (1846-1924).**
(Ch)

lype, = grief, distress, suffering, sad plight;
luperos, = painful;
-ium, = ‘characteristic of’, hence indicates connection or resemblance.
(LS, BL)

manus, = a hand;
-ulus, = diminutive.
manuleus, = the long sleeve of a tunic.
(appearance of five upright corolla lobes)
(ld, BL, Le)

mikros, = little, small; petty, mean, trivial insignificant;
odon, ontos, odons, = a tooth;
-odon, = tooth, toothed.
(small teeth)
(the calyx is 5-toothed)
(LS, BL, LB)

nemo, = (ΝΕΜΩ) to dwell in, inhabit, occupy;
nemos, = (νέμοσ) a wooded pasture, grove.
Greek name used by Dioscorides,** ((circa 40 – 90 AD), Greek writer), for some similar plant, referring to their habitat.
nemeseia, = (Νέμεσίς) the feast of Nemesis,** just or deserved indignation, anger at anything unjust, righteous resentment.
(LS, Cl)

Obscure; most authorities credit the name to Michael Adanson (1727 - 1806), who named the species after a friend M. Oft. The name was unexplained.
(K3)

phyllon, = a leaf;
pous, podos, = a foot.
(the base of a leaf stalk or main axis of a leaf)
(shape of leaves)
(LS, Ox, Le)

pseudo, = to be mistaken, be false;
(resembling but not equalling)
+ SELAGO (q.v.).
selago, = the name Selago is derived from sel, which means ‘sight’ and the Celtic word jach, which means ‘salutory’, referring to the supposed medicinal properties of the genus.
selago, = the club-moss resembling the savin-tree, Lycopodium selago;
(An ancient name for the club moss, the small leaves give members of this genus a superficial resemblance to the club moss)
Ancient name for LYCOPODIUM (q.v.).
Linnaeus thought there to be a likeness between leaves of these taxa.
(LS, Ox, PSA, ld)

selago, = the name Selago is derived from sel, which means ‘sight’ and the Celtic word jach, which means ‘salutory’, referring to the supposed medicinal properties of the genus.
selago, = the club-moss resembling the savin-tree, Lycopodium selago;
(An ancient name for the club moss, the small leaves give members of this genus a superficial resemblance to the club moss)
Ancient name for LYCOPODIUM (q.v.).
Linnaeus thought there to be a likeness between leaves of these taxa.
(PSA, ld, M, Le)

For Johann Rudolf Suter (1766-1827).**
(Ch)

For Johann Georg Teede (fl.1896).**
(Ch)

For Adam Zalusiansky von Zaluzian (1558-1613).**
(Ch)

chēn, = a gander, goose, named from its wide bill;
chaino, = to yawn, gape, open wide;
stoma, = the mouth.
(LS)

melas, = black, dark, gloomy, dusky, murky;
sphaira, = a ball, a sphere, globe;
(globose, spherical)
-ulus, = diminutive.
(LS, BL)

For Rev. Adam Buddle (1660-1715),** an English rector, amateur botanist, collector of British plants, and authority on bryophytes.
(Ch)