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)