Species within a genus

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ORNITHOGALUM (G)
Chincherinchee (Le)
Family: HYACINTHACEAE

ornis, = a bird;
ornith-,= pertaining to birds, bird-like;
gala, = milk.
(pigeon’s milk- (high fat, milk-like secretions produced in pigeons’ crops for feeding young. “Bird’s milk” was colloquial in Ancient Greek for something beautiful)
(LS, BL, Le)

Ornithogalum dregeanum (La)

Location: (K)

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)

Ornithogalum dubium (La)
Geeltjienk, Geeltjienkerintjie (PS)
Location: (F, P)

dubius, = wavering in opinion, doubting, doubtful, dubious, uncertain.
(doubtful)

(ld, BL)

Ornithogalum graminifolium (La)

Location: (F, K, P)

gramen, graminis, = grass;
folium,= a leaf.
(grass-leaved)
(ld, BL)

Ornithogalum hispidum subsp. bergii (La)

Location: (F, K, P)

hispido, = to make bristly, prickly;
-idus, = indicates a state or action in progress (‘-ish’).
hispidus, = rough, shaggy, hairy, bristly, prickly.
(hispid, covered with coarse rigid erect hairs or bristles harsh to the touch)

For Carl Heinrich Bergius (1790-1818).**
(ld, BL, Ch)

Ornithogalum juncifolium (La)
Grass-leved Chincherinchee (PS)
Location: (F, K, P)

jungo, = to join or unite together, connect, attach, fasten, yoke, harness;
juncus, = a twig resembling a rush;
folium, = a leaf.
(ld, BL)

Ornithogalum schlechterianum

Location: (F, P)

For Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925);**
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)

Ornithogalum thyrsoides (G)
Common Chincherinchee; African Wonder Flower, Witviooltjie (Wf,PS)
Location: (F, K, P)

thursos, = any light straight shaft; commonly the thursus, a wand wreathed in ivy and vine leaves with a pine-cone at the top, carried by devotees of Bacchus;
(thyrse, i.e. a more or less ovoid or ellipsoid panicle, with cymose branches)
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(LS, BL)