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

AGROSTIS (G)
Bent Grass, Couch Grass (Le)
Family: POACEAE

agros, = a field, land.
agrostis, = a grass that mules feed on.
(LS)

Agrostis bergiana
Slender Grass (Vo)
Location: (F)

Peter Jonas Bergius (1730-1790),** Swedish physician and botanist, plant collector, pupil of Linnaeus, and was appointed professor of natural history and pharmacy at the Collegium Medicum in Stockholm in 1761;
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch)

Agrostis montevidensis (La)
Wisp Grass (Vo)
Location: (F, K)

mons, montis, = a mountain, mount;
video, = to see;
-ensis, = indicates a country or place of growth or origin or else habitat.
(ld, BL)

Agrostis schlechteri

Location: (P)

For Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925),** German botanist, traveler and plant collector in Africa, assistant to Harry Bolus, came to the Cape in the 1890's; and/or his brother Max Schlechter (1874-1960).** Of the two brothers, Friedrich was unquestionably the senior from a collecting sense.
(Ch)