The Names Of Plants.pdf
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Names</strong> of <strong>Plants</strong><br />
Guazuma the Mexican vernacular name for bastard cedar (Guazuma ulmifolia)<br />
Gueldenstaedtia, gueldenstaedtianus -a -um for A. J. von Güldenstädt (1741–85),<br />
botanist in the Caucasus<br />
Guettarda for Jean Etienne Guettard (1715–86), French natural historian, physician<br />
to Louis Duke of Orleans, involved with Lavoisier in the mapping of the geology<br />
of France<br />
guianensis -is -e from Guiana, northern S America<br />
Guibourtia for Nicholas Jean Baptiste Gaston Guibourt (1790–1861), French pharmacologist,<br />
author of Histoire abregee des drogues simples (1849–51)<br />
guicciardii for Jacops Guicciard, who collected plants in Greece<br />
Guichenotia for Antoine Guichenot, a French gardener and traveller on the<br />
Nicholas Baudin expedition to New Holland, NW Australia (1800–03)<br />
Guilfoylia for William Robert Guilfoyle (1840–1912), Australian botanist, director<br />
of Melbourne Royal Botanic Garden<br />
Guillenia for C. Guillen, seventeenth-century Mexican Jesuit missionary<br />
guineensis -is -e from W Africa (Guinea Coast)<br />
guizhouensis -is -e from Kweichow province, SW China (Guizhou)<br />
Guizotia for François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787–1874), French historian and<br />
deposed from Premiership in 1849<br />
gulestanicus -a -um from Guleston or Gulestan, E Uzbekistan<br />
Gulubia New Guinea vernacular name for the gulubi palm<br />
gummifer -era -erum producing gum, gummi-fero<br />
gummi-gutta having drops of sticky exudate, gummi-gutta<br />
gummosus a -um gummy, with a sticky exudate, comparative of gummi<br />
Gundlachia for Johannes Christoph Gundlach (1810–96), German naturalist in<br />
Cuba<br />
Gunnarella for Gunnar Seidenfadden, Danish botanist and orchidologist<br />
(Siedenfaddenia) (the feminine diminutive suffix emphasizes that it is a genus of<br />
small epiphytic orchids)<br />
Gunnera for Johann Ernst Gunnerus of Trondheim (1718–73), Norwegian botanist,<br />
Bishop of Trondheim, author of Flora Norvegiaca (Gunneraceae)<br />
Gunnia, gunnii for Ronald Campbell Gunn (1808–81), S African editor of the<br />
Tasmanian Journal of Natural Sciences, collector for William Jackson Hooker<br />
Gurania anagram of Anguira<br />
gussonii for Giovanni Gussone (1787–1866), Director of the Botanic Garden at<br />
Palermo<br />
Gustavia for Linnaeus’ patron, King Gustavus III of Sweden (1746–92)<br />
Gutierrezia for P. Gutierrez, Spanish nobleman<br />
gutta drop, gutta, guttae (Dichopsis gutta yields a latex, gutta percha, or<br />
chaoutchouc); some derive from Malay, getah<br />
guttatus -a -um spotted, covered with small glandular dots, gutta<br />
guttiferus -a -um gum- or resin-producing, gutta-fero<br />
guttulatus -a -um slightly glandular, marked all over with small dots, diminutive<br />
of gutta<br />
Guzmania for Anastasio Guzman (d. 1807), Spanish naturalist in S America<br />
Gyminda anagram of Myginda<br />
gymn-, gymno- exposed-, naked-, gumnoj, gumno-, gumn-<br />
Gymnacranthera Apical-exposed-stamen, gumn-akra-anqeroj<br />
Gymnadenia Naked-gland, gumnoj-adhn (exposed pollen viscidia)<br />
gymnandrus -a -um with naked stamens, with exposed anthers, gumn-androj<br />
Gymnanthera, gymnantherus -a -um Exposed stamens, gumn-anqhroj<br />
Gymnanthes, gymnanthus -a -um Naked-flowered, gumn-anqoj<br />
Gymnarrhena Exposed androecium, gumn-arrhn<br />
Gymnema Naked-threads, gumn-nhma (the exposed filaments)<br />
Gymnemospis Looking-like-Gymnema, gumn-nhma-oyij<br />
Gymnocalycium Exposed-calyx, gumno-kaluc (the protruding flower-buds)<br />
Gymnocarpium Naked-fruit, gumnoj-karpoj (oak fern sori lack indusia)<br />
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