Species within a genus

Genus: 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

CHIRONIA
Centuary, Bitterwortel (Le)
Family: GENTIANACEAE

After Chiron**the physician and botanist; the good Centaur of Greek mythology who studied medicine, astronomy, music, and other arts, and was a skilled herbalist.
(ld, Le)

Chironia baccifera (La)
Agdaegeneesbos, Christmas Berry (PS)
Location: (F, K, P)

baca, bacca, = a small round fruit, a berry;
fero, ferre, = to bear, carry, bring.
bacifer, = bearing berries.
(ld)

Chironia decumbens (La)

Location: (F, K)

decumbo, decumbere, = to lie down.
(reclining upon the earth, and rising again from it at the apex)
(ld, BL)

Chironia jasminoides (Ar, G)
Large Chironia (Vo) Marsh Centuary (Wf)
Location: (F, K)

yās(a)min, = jasmine;
-ōidēs, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
The Arabic yās(a)min, was adopted from Persian yasmin, with which compare the Greek, iasmê, the name of a Persian perfume, probably oil of jasmine.
(Ox, BL)

Chironia linoides subsp. linoides (G, La)

Location: (K)

LINUM (q.v.), the flax;
linon,= flax;
linum, = flax;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(K3, LS, ld, BL)

Chironia linoides sunsp. nana (G, La)
Dwarf Chironia (Vo) Narrow-leaved Centuary (Wf)
Location: (F, K, P)

LINUM (q.v.), the flax;
linon,= flax.
linum, = flax.
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.

nanus, = a dwarf.
(small)
(K3, LS, ld, BL)

Chironia melampyrifolia (G, La)
Streamside Chironia (Vo)
Location: (F, K)

melas, = black, dark, gloomy, dusky, murky;
puros, = a grain of wheat, from pur (the fire of Jove; i.e. lightning), because of its flame colour when ripe;
folium, = a leaf.
(LS, ld)

Chironia stokoei

Location: (F, K)

For Thomas Pearson Stokoe (1868-1959).**
(Ch)

Chironia tetragona (G)
Sticky Chironia (Vo)
Location: (F, K, P)

tetros, = four;
gony, = the knee.
(angled, angular; knee, node (of grass)
(LS, BL)