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
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower;
sperma, = that which is sown, seed.
(male flowers may carry a small ovary capable of carrying a seed)
(LS, Le)
Anthospermum aethiopicum (G, La)
Jakkalsstert, Katstert, Seeroogbossie (PS)
Location: (F, K, P)
Aithiops, (αίθώ, όψ), = an Ethiop, negro, properly Burnt-face.
Aethiopia, = a country in Africa, on both sides of the equator. Its limits cannot be accurately defined.
(usually South Africa, in classical use Africa south of Libya and Egypt, hence Abyssinia)
-icus, = indicates ‘belonging to’.
(LS, ld, BL)
Anthospermum bergianum

Location: (K, P)
For (1) 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;
or
(2) Carl (Karl) Heinrich Bergius (1790-1818),** Prussian botanist, naturalist, cavalryman and pharmacist from Kustrin. He served in the Napoleonic Wars and was awarded the Iron Cross, and is notable for his natural history collecting in southern Africa.
(Ch)
Anthospermum ericifolium (La)

Location: (K)
ERICA (q.v.);
folium, = leaf.
(with leaves resembling those of ERICAS)
(ld, K3)
Anthospermum galioides subsp. galioides (G)

Location: (F, K)
gala, = milk;
-ium, = diminutive;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(having the characteristics similar to the genus GALIUM (q.v.))
(LS, BL, K3)
Anthospermum galioides subsp. reflexifolium (G, La)

Location: (F)
gala, = milk;
-ium, = diminutive;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(having the characteristics similar to the genus GALIUM (q.v.))

reflecto, reflexum, = to bend or turn back or backwards, to turn about or away.
(reflexed, bent abruptly backwards at more than 90°)
folium, = a leaf.
(LS, BL, K3, ld)
Anthospermum prostratum (La)

Location: (K)
prosterno, prostratus, = to strew in front of, to strew before one; to throw to the ground, throw down, overthrow, prostrate;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(lying flat upon the earth or any other thing)
(ld, BL)
Anthospermum spathulatum subsp. ecklonianum (La)

Location: (P)
spatha, = a broad, flat wooden instrument for stirring any liquid, a spattle, spatula; a spathe of a palm tree;
-ulus, = diminutive;
spatula, spathula, = a broad piece; a little palm-branch;
-atum, = indicates possession or likeness.
(spathulate, spatula shaped, i.e from a broad rounded upper part tapering gradually downwards into a stalk)

For Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795-1868),** a Danish pharmacist, botanist and plant collector, and one of the early botanical explorers of the Cape. He moved to South Africa in 1823 as first an apothecary's apprentice and then pharmacist and collected plants from 1823 to 1833, returning to Europe in 1828 with vast amounts of collected material which were distributed to German and Danish botanists.
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(ld, BL, Ch)
Anthospermum spathulatum subsp. spathulatum (La)
Jakkalsstert, Skaapbos (PS)
Location: (F)
spatha, = a broad, flat wooden instrument for stirring any liquid, a spattle, spatula; a spathe of a palm tree;
-ulus, = diminutive;
spatula, spathula, = a broad piece; a little palm-branch;
-atum, = indicates possession or likeness.
(spathulate, spatula shaped, i.e from a broad rounded upper part tapering gradually downwards into a stalk)

(ld, BL)