Name
|
Explanation
|
alba |
white, rather dull white |
albo-marginata |
white margined |
altissima |
very tall |
angustifolia |
narrow-leaved |
Asphodelus |
asphodel |
aurantiaca |
orange |
aurea |
golden yellow |
baroni |
Baroni, Eugenio (1865-1943)
Italian botanist |
chengtu |
in Chengtu (China) collected |
chinensis |
coming from China |
citrina |
lemon yellow |
coerulea |
blue |
cordata |
cordate |
cordifolia |
cordate-leaved |
coreana |
coming from Korea |
crocea |
saffron yellow, cadmium yellow |
cucullata |
hooded |
cypriani |
Cypriani, (18..-19..)
padres, missionary in Hupeh |
darrowiana |
Darrow, George M. (2.Feb.1889 - 9.June 1983)
plant physiologist and horticulturist |
disticha |
distichous, arranged in 2 opposite rows |
dumortieri |
Dumortier, Barthelemy Charles Joseph (3.Aril 1797 - 9.July 1878)
Belgian botanist; born at Tournai; died in Tournai |
elmense |
|
esculenta |
edible |
europa |
in Europe already early widespread and wild |
exaltata |
raised high, lofty |
exilis |
small, meagre, week, thin, slender |
festival |
|
flava |
yellow, paler than "luteus" |
flore pleno |
with a double flower |
flore ploeno |
= "flore pleno" (typo) |
forma variegata |
variegated form |
forma violacea |
violet form |
forrestii |
Forrest, George F. (13.March 1873 - 5/6.Jan.1932)
English botanist; born in Falkirk, Stirlingshire; died in Tengchung, China |
fulva |
tawny, yellowish-brown |
gracilis |
thin, slender |
graminea |
grassy, grass-like |
graminifolia |
grass-leaved |
hakuunensis |
type species collected at the mountain Hakuunzan |
hankow |
in Hankow (Hupeh, China) collected |
Hemerocallis |
beauty for one day |
hippeastroides |
Amaryllis-like |
hongdoensis |
named after the type locality Hong Do island |
hupehensis |
in Hupeh (China) collected |
japonica |
coming from Japan |
kwanso |
|
kwanzo |
|
lancifolia |
with lanceolate leaves |
liliastrum |
lily-like |
liliflorus |
lily-flowering |
lilioasphodelus |
lily-asphodel (gr. "lirio" = lat.
"lilio") |
lirioasphodelus |
lily-asphodel (gr. "lirio" = lat.
"lilio") |
littorea (litorea) |
pertaining to the sea-shore |
longibracteata |
with long bracts |
longituba |
long tube |
lutea |
deep yellow, golden-yellow,
deeper than "flavus" |
luteola |
pale yellow, yellowish |
luteus |
deep yellow, golden-yellow,
deeper than "flavus" |
maculata |
spotted, blotched |
major |
greater |
Margaret Perry |
|
micrantha |
small-flowered |
middendorffiana |
belonging to H. middendorffii |
middendorffii |
Middendorff, Alexander Theodor von (18.Aug.1815 - 28.Jan.1894)
Russian botanist, zoologist and Asia explorer, born in St. Petersburg, died in Hellenorm (Livonia in Latvia) |
minor |
smaller, inferior, lesser |
mucrensis |
typo for nocerensis |
muelleri |
Mueller, Willy (18..-19..)
nephew of Charles Sprenger |
multiflora |
abounding in flowers |
nana |
dwarf |
nocerensis |
city Nocera Inferiore close to Salerno (Italy) |
nucerensis |
typo for nocerensis |
ochroleuca |
yellowish white, pale yellow, fallow |
oppositibracteata |
with opposite bracts |
partenope |
old name for Naples (gr. Parthenope) |
pauciflora |
few-flowered |
pedicellata |
pedicelled, provided with a pedicel |
phoeniceus |
bright red, scarlet |
plantaginea |
plantain-like |
plicata |
folded into pleats or furrows |
pumila |
dwarf, close-growing, short |
quanso |
|
rosea |
rose |
rutilans |
red with yellow admixture,
reddish-orange |
rutilens |
see rutilans |
sempervirens |
evergreen |
sendaica |
probably derived from the Japanese town Sendai in the prefecture Miyagi |
serotina |
late-coming, late to leaf or flower |
sieboldiana |
belonging to species "sieboldii" |
sieboldii |
Siebold, Franz Philipp von (1796-1866)
German botanical Japan researcher |
speciosa |
showy, splendid |
sulphurea |
sulphur yellow |
taeanensis |
found at Taean, peninsula in the province Chungchongnam-Do,
west coast of Corea |
tazaifu |
found at Tazaifu, province Kyushu, Japan |
theron |
Major Theron Roundell Strong |
thunbergii |
Thunberg, Carl Peter (11.Nov.1743 - 8.Aug.1822)
Swedish doctor, botanist & traveller |
undulata |
undulate |
variegata |
variegated |
vespertina |
belonging to the evening |
vomerense |
Vomero, highest mountain in the surroundings of Naples |
washingtonia |
Washington, George (1732-1799)
president of the USA 1789-1797 |
yezoensis |
found in Yezo, province Kitami, Japan |