Species within a genus

abrotonum, = a plant of a pleasant, aromatic smell, southernwood;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(having a similarity to ARTEMESIA abrotanum, (southernwood)a hardy deciduous shrub having an aromatic smell and sour taste, native to south of Europe, formerly much cultivated for medicinal purposes)
(ld, BL, K3, Ox)

albus, = white, properly dead white, not shining;
(white, particularly a dull rather than a glossy white)
flos, floris, = flower.
(ld, BL)

alopeks¸ alopec, = fox;
oura, = the tail; the stern;
-urus, = -tailed, i.e. with an elongated or tail-like appendage;
-oides, = indicates resemblance.
(LS, BL)

For William John Burchell (1781-1863),** botanical collector, painter, writer, gardener, entomologist, early explorer and naturalist in South Africa who was the author of Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, a book that was published in 1822.
(Ch)

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)

For Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795-1868).**
(Ch)

incurvus, = bent, bowed, crooked, curved.
(suddenly bent inwards)
(ld, BL)

lana, = wool;
lanugo, = woolliness, down, of plants;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
lanuginosus, = woolly, downy.
(woolly, downy)
(ld, BL)

rrubeo, rubrus, = to be red or ruddy.
(ld)

ssqualeo, = to be stiff or rough from slovenliness or want of care; to be filthy, neglected, squalid;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
squarrosus, = scurfy, scabby, scalled.
(squarose, i.e. rough with scales, tips of bracts etc., projecting outwards usually at about 90º)
(ld, BL, Ox)

For Thomas Pearson Stokoe (1868-1959).**
(Ch)