Species within a genus

angustus, = narrow, strait, close, contracted, small, not spacious. (narrow)
(ld, BL)

anomalos, -us = (ανωμαλός) deviating from the general rule, irregular, anomalous.
(ld, BL)

For Thomas Theodore Barnard (1898-1983);** -ellus, = diminutive.
(Ch, BL)

For John Bellenden Ker(1764-1842).**
(Ch)

bitumen, = bitumen; -osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development. bituminosus, = abounding in bitumen, bituminous. (coal black)
(ld, BL)

bulbus, = a bulb, bulbous root, an onion; -ellus, = diminutive; fero, ferre, = to bear, carry, bring. (bearing small bulbs – more correctly ‘cormlets’)
(ld, BL, LB)

cilium, = an eyelid; cilium, = delicate hairs resembling eyelashes, especially such as form a fringe to the margins of leaves; -atus, = indicates possession or likeness. (fringed or surrounded with hairs or fine bristles)
(ld, Ox, BL)

collis, = high ground, a hill; -inus, = indicateing possession or resemblance. collina, = hilly land.
(ld, BL)

Delta, = a name for the islands formed at the mouths of large rivers, especially the Nile, so called from their shape; delta, = triangle; (the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet ‘Δ’); -oideus, = indicates resemblance. (deltoid; a solid, the transverse section of which has a triangular outline, like the Greek ‘Δ’)
(LS, BL)

For Mrs. Emily Pauline Reitz Ferguson (1872-?).**
(Ch)

flaccus, = flabby, hanging down; -idus, = indicates a state or an action in progress. flaccidus, = flabby, flaccid, pendulous. (flaccid, not able to hold up ones own weight)
(ld, BL)

fugax, = apt to flee, flying swiftly, swift, fleet; fleeting, transitory; (fleeting, transitory, ephemeral) -issimus, = (superlative) very, most.
(ld, BL)

fugax, = apt to flee, flying swiftly, swift, fleet; fleeting, transitory. (fleeting, transitory, ephemeral)
(ld, BL)

For John Ker-Gawler (later Bellenden Ker) (1764-1842).**
(Ch)

-, un-, = not; conspicuus, = that is or comes in view, visible; that attractes the attention to itself, striking, conspicuous, distinguished, illustrious, remarkable; -uus, = indicates possibility or result of action. inconspicuus, = not conspicuous, not remarkable. (inconspicuous)
(ld, BL)

For Dr Gwendoline Joyce Lewis (1909 -1967).**
(Ch)

longus, = long; stylos, = a pillar, a post, pale, beam; stilus, = a stake, pale; of the stem or stalk of many plants.
(ld, LS)

lugeo, = to mourn, lament, bewail, deplore; to wear mourning apparel; lugubris, = of or belonging to mourning, mourning; mournful, doleful, plaintive. (doleful, dull or dark)
(ld, K3)

luror, luroris, = a yellowish colour, sallowness, paleness; -idus, = indicates a state or an action in progress. luridus, = pale yellow, sallow, wan, ghastly, lurid. (dirty brown, smoky yellow, drab yellow)
(ld, BL)

makros, = far stretching; tall, lofty, much; carpos, = fruit. (with large fruit)
(LS, BL)

neglego, neglectum, = to not heed, not trouble oneself about, not attend to, to slight, neglect, be regardless of, indifferent to. neglectus, = neglected, slighted, disregarded, despised. (neglected) (a neglected plant – considering that it was quite common; it was overlooked and only named comparatively recently)
(ld, BL, LB)

ochros, = pale, wan, sallow; (pale, wan, sallow, pale yellow) leukos, = white, grey, hoary; also, blanched, pale, wan. (whitish-yellow, yellowish-white)
(LS, BL)

papilio, papilionis, = a butterfly, moth; -aceus, = indicates resemblance. (butterfly-like)
(ld, BL)

pyr, = fire; philios, = loving, friendly, kind. (the plant’s germination is triggered off by fire)
(LS, K3)

ramus, = a branch, bough, twig; -osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development. ramosus, = full of boughs, having many branches, braching, branchy. -issimus, = (superlative) very, most. (very much branched)
(ld, BL)

saeta, seta, = a thick, stiff hair, a bristle; of the spiny leaves of coniferous trees; (a bristle, bristle-like organ, as the fruit-stalk of a (sporophore) moss) folium, = a leaf.
(ld, BL)

tri-, = three times, thrice; cuspis, = a point, the pointed end of any thing; (cuspate; a pointed end of any organ, especially a sharp rigid point of a leaf) -idus, = indicates a state or action in progress (‘-ish’); -atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(LS, ld, Ox, BL)

tri-, = three times, thrice; petalos, = spreadout, unfolded, broad, flat. petalon, = a leaf. (in modern botany, petal)
(LS, BL)

umbra, = a shade, shadow; the dark part of a painting, shade, shadow; -ellus, diminutive. umbella, = (metonymically, a little shadow), a sunshade, parasol, umbrella. -atus, = indicates possession or likeness. (umbellate)
(ld, BL)

unguis, = a nail of a person’s finger or toe; of plants, a nail-like spot, the tip, extremity; -culus, = diminutive; unguiculus, = a finger nail; -atus, = indicates possession or likeness. (claw, narrowed basal part of a petal, length of a fingernail)
(ld, BL)

valles, vallis, = a valley, vale. avis, = a bird. (named after Vogelgat Nature Reserve – ‘Valley of the birds – the black eagle’)
(ld, LB)

viscum, = the mistletoe (bird-lime made from the berries of the mistletoe); -arius, = indicates connexion or possession.
(ld, BL)