Species within a genus

congero, = to bear, carry or bring together, to collect; to prepare, to make, heap up.
congestus, = brought together.
(crowded together)
(ld, BL)

denudo, = to lay bare, make naked, denude;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(denuded, stripped, having the leaves or hairs worn off)
(ld, BL)

esca, = food;
-ulentus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
esculentus, = fit for eating, good to eat, eatable, edible, esculent.
(good to eat, eatable, esculent)
(edible)
(ld, BL)

rotundus, = wheel-shaped, i.e. round, circular, spherical, rotund.
(almost circular, with length to breadth almost 6 to 5)
(ld, BL)

sphaira, = a sphere, globe;
(globose, spherical)
sperma, = that which is sown, seed.
(LS, BL)

texo, = to weave;
-ilis, = indicates capacity or ability, hence a property or quality.
textilis, = woven, wrought, textile.
(woven, wrought)
(ld, BL)

For Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828),** Swedish botanist and physician who travelled as surgeon with ships of the Dutch East India Company and did extensive botanical exploration in southern Africa and Japan. He was a student of Linnaeus, one of his so-called apostles and perhaps his foremost disciple, a plant collector and explorer, and after his travelling years was a professor of botany and medicine at Uppsala.
(Ch)