Species within a genus

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HYPODONTIUM (G)
Moss ()
Family: POTTIACEAE

(h)upo, = under, beneath;
(below, under, beneath)
odon, ontos, odons, = a tooth;
-ium, = diminutive; -little.

(LS, BL)

Hypodontium dregei

Location: (F)

FFor Johann Franz (Jean Francois) Drège (1794-1881),** German plant collector and a botanical explorer and traveller who arrived in the Cape in 1826 with his brother Wilhelm Eduard to join his other brother Carl Friedrich who had come in 1821.
(Ch)

Hypodontium pomiforme (La)
Moss (Vo)
Location: (F)

pomum, = a fruit of any kind;
forma, = form, contour, figure, shape, appearance.
(having the shape of a pome or fruit; pome (obsolete) meant ‘to form a close head or heart, as a cabbage; to head; to heart’)

(ld, Ox)