List of plant genus names with etymologies (A–C) explained
See also: List of plant genus names with etymologies (D–K), List of plant genus names with etymologies (L–P) and List of plant genus names with etymologies (Q–Z). Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. Many of these plants are listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. William Stearn (1911–2001) was one of the pre-eminent British botanists of the 20th century: a Librarian of the Royal Horticultural Society, a president of the Linnean Society and the original drafter of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants.
The first column below contains seed-bearing genera from Stearn and other sources as listed, excluding those names that no longer appear in more modern works, such as Plants of the World by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz (lead author), Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase. Plants of the World is also used for the family and order classification for each genus. The second column gives a meaning or derivation of the word, such as a language of origin. The last two columns indicate additional citations. __FORCETOC__
Key
Latin: = derived from Latin (otherwise Greek, except as noted)
Ba = listed in Ross Bayton's The Gardener's Botanical
Bu = listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names
CS = listed in both Allen Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names and Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners
G = listed in David Gledhill's The Names of Plants
St = listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners
Genera
See also
References
- Book: Bayton, Ross . The Gardener's Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names . Princeton University Press . Princeton, New Jersey . 2020 . 978-0-691-20017-0 . .
- Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 187926901 . January 1, 2021 . . See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for license.
- Book: Christenhusz . Maarten . Fay . Michael Francis. Chase . Mark Wayne . Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants . Kew Publishing and The University of Chicago Press . Chicago, Illinois . 2017 . 978-0-226-52292-0 . .
- Book: Coombes, Allen . The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants . Timber Press . Portland, Oregon . 2012 . 978-1-60469-196-2 . .
- Book: Cullen, Katherine E. . 2006 . Biology: The People Behind the Science . New York, New York . Infobase Publishing . 978-0-8160-7221-7 . .
- Book: Gledhill, David . The Names of Plants . Cambridge University Press . New York, New York . 2008 . 978-0-521-86645-3 . .
- The Linnean Society. The Linnean Society. Publications by William T. Stearn on bibliographical, botanical and horticultural subjects, 1977–1991; a chronological list. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. August 1992. 109. 4. 443–451. 0024-4074 . 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1992.tb01443.x. .
- Book: Stearn, William . Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners . Cassell . London . 2002 . 978-0-304-36469-5 . .
Further reading
- Book: Brown, Roland . Composition of Scientific Words . Smithsonian Institution Press . Washington, DC . 1956 . 978-1-56098-848-9 . .
- Book: Lewis, Charlton . An Elementary Latin Dictionary . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 1891 . 978-0-19-910205-1 . . Available online at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Book: Liddell . Henry George . Scott . Robert . An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon . Martino Fine Books . Mansfield Centre, Connecticut . 2013 . 1888/1889 . 978-1-61427-397-4 . Available online at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Book: Quattrocchi, Umberto . CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume I, A–C . CRC Press . Boca Raton, Florida . 2000 . 978-0-8493-2675-2 .
