The Names Of Plants.pdf

The Names of Plants
Galeandra Helmeted-stamen, (galea, galeae)-andrus (the cover of the another)
Galearia Helmeted, galea (the concave petals)
Galearis Hooded, galea (arrangement of the perianth)
galeatus -a -um, galericulatus -a -um helmet-shaped, like a skull-cap, galea
Galega Milk-bringing, gala-agw (goat’s rue is reputed to improve lactation)
galegi- resembling Galega
galegifolius -a -um having leaves resembling those of Galega
Galenia for Claudius Galenus of Pergamos (129–200), free-thinking mathematician,
philosopher, physician, theist and experimentalist, author of pneuma yuxikon
(Spiritus animalis) Living Spirits
Galeobdolon, galeobdolon Weasel-smell, galen-bdoloj (a name used in Pliny)
galeopsifolius -a -um having leaves similar to those of Galeopsis
Galeopsis Weasel-like, resembling Galeobdolon (galen, galh)-oyij (an ancient
Greek name used by Pliny), some derive from galea, a helmet
Galeottia, galeottianus -a -um for Henri Guillaume Galeotti (1811–58), Italian
explorer and plant hunter in central America, director of Brussels Botanic Garden
galericulatus -a -um bonnet- or skull-cap-like, from diminutive of galerum (the
calyx of skullcap, Scutellaria galericulata, the pileus of bonnet Mycena)
galeritus -a -um of rustic places, rustic, galeritus
gali- Galium-likegalii
of bedstraws, living on Galium (Eriophyes, acarine gall mite)
galiicola living on Galium (Dasyneura, dipteran gall midge)
galilaeus -a -um from Galilee, Israel
Galinsoga for Don Mariano Martinez de Galinsoga, eighteenth-century Spanish
director of the botanic garden at Madrid (Englished as gallant soldier)
galioides bedstraw-like, resembling Galium, Galium-oides
Galipea the Amerindian vernacular name for the angostura tree, Galipea officinalis
Galium Milk, Dioscorides’ name, galion (the flowers of G. verum were used to
curdle milk, gala, in cheese making)
Gallesia for Giorgio Gallesio (1772–1839), Italian botanist
gallicus -a -um from France, French, Galli; of the cock or rooster, gallus, galli
gallii for Nicolas Joseph Marie Le Gall de Kerinou (1787–1860), author of Flore de
Morbihan, 1852
gallingar the medieval apothecaries’ name for dried roots of Alpinia officinarum,
from the Chinese, koa liang kiang, reapplied to the substitute, English galangal,
or galingale, Cyperus longus
galopus -a -um with a milky stalk, gala-pouj (exudate from damaged stipe)
Galphimia anagram of Malpighia
Galpinia, galpinii for Ernst Eduard Galpin of Barberton (1858–1941), collector in S
Africa, author on the flora of Drakensberg, 1909
Galtonia for Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911) pioneer in eugenics, anthropology, fingerprinting
and weather charting, writer on exploration (summer hyacinth)
Galvezia for Jose Galvez, a Spanish colonial administrator
gamandrea the medieval apothecaries’ name for a medicinal plant (cognate with
chamaedrys, xamaidruj, and germander)
Gamanthera Fused-stamens, gamo-anqera
Gamanthus Joined-flowers, gamo-anqoj
Gambelia for William Gambel (1821–49), American biologist at the National
Academy of Sciences
gambier the Malay vernacular name, gambir, for Uncaria gambier and the astringent
catechu extract from it
gambogius -a -um from Cambodia, rich-yellow, gamboge (the resin obtained from
Garcinia gambogia or G. hanburyi)
gamo- fused-, joined-, united-, married-, gamoj, gamo-
Gamochaeta Fused-bristles, gamo-xaith (the united pappus hairs)
Gamolepis United-scales, gamo-lepij (the involucral bracts)
gamopetalus -a -um having the petals united, gamo-petalon
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