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
jungo, = to join or unite together, connect, attach, fasten, yoke, harness.
juncus, = a twig resembling a rush.
(early ropes were made from rushes)

(ld, Le)
Juncus bufonius (La)
Toadrush (PS)
Location: (K, P)
bufo, = a toad;
-ius, = means ‘characteristic of’, hence indicates connexion or resemblance.
(Alien)
(ld, BL, Cw)
Juncus capensis (La)
Cape Rush (Vo)
Location: (F, K, P)
cape, = Cape of Good Hope;
-ensis, = indicates country or place of growth, or origin or else habitat.
(pertaining to the Cape of Good Hope; Cape Peninsula)
(BL)
Juncus dregeanus subsp. dregeanus (La)
Biesie (PS)
Location: (K, P)
For 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;
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)
Juncus effusus (La)

Location: (F, K)
effundo, effusus, = to pour out, pour forth, shed, spread abroad; spread out, extensive, vast, broad.
(spread out, intermediate, straggling, wide)
(referring to the habit of growth)
(ld, BL)
Juncus krausii subsp. krausii
Matting Rush (PS)
Location: (F, K)
For Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krausse (1812-1890).**
(Ch)
Juncus lomatophyllus (G)
Fringe-leafed Rush (Vo)
Location: (F, K, P)
loma, = the hem or border of a robe;
(hem, fringe, border)
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness;
phyllon, = a leaf.
(LS, BL)
Juncus oxycarpus (G)

Location: (F, K, P)
oxys, = sharp, keen, pointed;
oxy-, = sharp, sour, pointed;
carpos, = fruit.
(LS, BL)