Species within a genus
spatha, = a broad, flat wooden instrument for stirring any liquid, a spattle, spatula; a spathe of a palm tree;
-ulus, = diminutive;
spatula, spathula, = a broad piece; a little palm-branch;
-atum, = indicates possession or likeness.
(spathulate, spatula shaped, i.e from a broad rounded upper part tapering gradually downwards into a stalk)
For Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795-1868),** a Danish pharmacist, botanist and plant collector, and one of the early botanical explorers of the Cape. He moved to South Africa in 1823 as first an apothecary's apprentice and then pharmacist and collected plants from 1823 to 1833, returning to Europe in 1828 with vast amounts of collected material which were distributed to German and Danish botanists.
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(ld, BL, Ch)
-ulus, = diminutive;
spatula, spathula, = a broad piece; a little palm-branch;
-atum, = indicates possession or likeness.
(spathulate, spatula shaped, i.e from a broad rounded upper part tapering gradually downwards into a stalk)
For Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795-1868),** a Danish pharmacist, botanist and plant collector, and one of the early botanical explorers of the Cape. He moved to South Africa in 1823 as first an apothecary's apprentice and then pharmacist and collected plants from 1823 to 1833, returning to Europe in 1828 with vast amounts of collected material which were distributed to German and Danish botanists.
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(ld, BL, Ch)