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

CAESIA
Blue Grass Lily (Le)
Family: HEMEROCALLIDACEAE

For Federico Cesi (Fridericus Caesius) (1585-1630),** Italian botanist, microscopist and supporter of Galileo, discovered that ferns have spores.
(Ch)

Caesia contorta (La)
Bloutjienks (PS)
Location: (F, K, P)

contorqueo, contortum, = to turn, twirl, swing, whirl or brandish.
contortus, = brandished, hurled, full of motion, powerful, vehement, energetic, strong.
(powerful, vehement, involved; each piece being oblique in figure, and overlapping it’s neighbour by one margin, its other margin being in like manner, overlapped by that which stands next to it)
(ld, BL)

Caesia eckloniana

Location: (P)

For Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795-1868),** a Danish pharmacist, botanist and plant collector, and one of the early botanical explorers of the Cape;
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)