List Of Plant Genus Names With Etymologies (L–P)

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 ''#References, Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners''. William T. Stearn, 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 of London, Linnean Society and the original drafter of the ''International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants''.

The first column below contains Spermatophyte, seed-bearing genera from Stearn and other sources as listed, excluding those names that no longer appear in more modern works, such as ''#References, Plants of the World'' by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz (lead author), Michael Francis Fay, Michael F. Fay and Mark Wayne Chase, Mark W. Chase. ''Plants of the World'' is also used for the family (biology), family and order (biology), 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

* Glossary of botanical terms
* List of Greek and Latin roots in English
* List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
* List of plant genera named for people: List of plant genera named for people (A–C), A–C, List of plant genera named for people (D–J), D–J, List of plant genera named for people (K–P), K–P, List of plant genera named for people (Q–Z), Q–Z
* List of plant family names with etymologies

Notes

Citations

References

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