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
STIPAGROSTIS (G)
Boesmangras (Le)
Family: POACEAE
stype, = tow (Old Eng.), the coarse part of flax or hemp;
stiphros, = close-pressed,: close, compact, solid, tough, stout;
agros, = a field, land.
agrostis, = a grass that mules feed on.
(LS)
Stipagrostis dregeana (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)
Stipagrostis zeyheri subsp. zeyheri
Blinkaargras (PS)
Location: (F, K, P)
For Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799-1858).**
(Ch)