15.06.2013 Views

The Names Of Plants.pdf

The Names Of Plants.pdf

The Names Of Plants.pdf

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Glossary<br />

kishtvariensis-is -e from Kishtwar, Kashmir<br />

kisso- ivy-, ivy-like-, kissoj<br />

Kissodendron Ivy-tree, kissoj-dendron (Queensland, Australia)<br />

kitadakensis -is -e from Kita Dake, Japan<br />

Kitaibela (Kitaibelia), kitaibaleianus -a -um, kitaibelii for Professor Pal Kitaibel<br />

(1757–1817), botanist at Pécs, Hungary<br />

kiushianus -a -um, kiusianus -a -um from Kyushu, one of the major islands forming<br />

S Japan<br />

kiyosumiensis -is -e from Kiyosumi, Kominato, E Japan<br />

Klattia, klattianus -a -um, klatii for Friedrich Wilhelm G. Klatt (1825–97), a contributor<br />

to Flora Brasiliensis<br />

Kleinhovia for Dr Christiaan Kleinhoff (d. 1777), Director of the Botanic Garden,<br />

Batavia<br />

Kleinia for Jacob <strong>The</strong>odore Klein (1685–1759), German botanist and ornithologist<br />

Klotzschia for Johann Friedrich Klotsch (1805–60)<br />

Knappia, knappii for Joseph Armin Knapp (1843–99), Viennese writer on the flora<br />

of E Europe<br />

Knautia for Christian (Christoph) Knaut (1654–1716), German botanist and author<br />

of Methodus plantarum genuina<br />

Knema Internode, knhmh (distinctly nodal)<br />

Knightia, knightii for Thomas Andrew Knight (1758–1838), President of the<br />

Horticultural Society of London, who raised the monarch pear, dedicated to<br />

William IV, in 1830<br />

Kniphofia for Johannes Hieronymus Kniphof (1704–1763), Professor of Medicine at<br />

Erfurt and botanist<br />

Knowltonia for Thomas Knowleton (1692–1782), curator of Eltham botanic garden<br />

Kobresia (Cobresia) for (Paul) Carl von Cobres (1747–1823), Austrian botanist<br />

kobus from a Japanese name, kobushi, for some Magnolia species<br />

Kochia, kochianus -a -um for Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771–1849), Professor of<br />

Botany at Erlangen, or Dr Heinrich Koch (1805–87), a botanist, of Bremen<br />

Koeberlinia for Christoph Ludwig Koeberlin, nineteenth-century German cleric<br />

and botanist<br />

koehneanus -a -um, koehnei for Bernhard Adelbert Emil Koehne (1848–1918),<br />

Professor of Botany at Berlin<br />

Koeleria for Georg Ludwig Koeler (1765–1807), German physician, botanist and<br />

writer on grasses<br />

Koellikeria for Albrecht Kölliker (Koelliker) (1817–1905), Swiss anatomist, professor<br />

at Wurzburg<br />

Koelreuteria (Köelreuteria) for Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (Koelreuter) (1733–1806),<br />

Professor of Natural History, Karlsruhe, pioneer hybridizer<br />

Koenigia (Koenigia, Koeniga) for Johann Gerhard König (Koenig) (1728–85), Latvian<br />

student of Linnaeus, missionary and botanist in India<br />

Kohleria for Michael Kohler, nineteenth-century Swiss natural historian<br />

Kohlrauschia for F. H. Kohlrausch, assiduous German lady botanist of Berlin<br />

koilo- hollow-, koiloj<br />

koilolepis -is -e having hollow scales, koilo-lepij<br />

Kokia from a Hawaiian vernacular name for tree cotton<br />

Kokoona a vernacular name from Sri Lanka<br />

kola as Cola, a Mende vernacular name, ngola<br />

Kolkwitzia for Richard Kolkwitz (1873–1956), Professor of Botany, Berlin<br />

Kolobopetalum Shortened-leaf, kolobow-petalon<br />

kolomicta a vernacular name from Amur, eastern Russia, for Actinidia kolomicta (for<br />

its varying leaf colour?)<br />

kolpakowskianus -a -um for Gerasim Alexzewitsch Kolpakewsky (d. 1980),<br />

Governor of Siebenstrombezirks, Turkestan<br />

komarovi, komarowii for Vladimir Leontiewitch Komarow (1869–1945), Russian<br />

botanist<br />

225

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!