Gardenia
Translingual
Gardenia flower
Etymology
New Latin, named by botanist Job Bicknell Ellis (1829-1905) after Scottish physician and botanist, living in South Carolina, Alexander Garden (1730-1791).[1][2] + -ia
Proper noun
Gardenia f
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Gentianales - order; Rubiaceae - family; Ixoroideae - subfamily; Gardenieae - tribe
Hyponyms
- See
References
- ↑ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
- ↑ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.
Further reading
- Gardenia on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Gardenia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Gardenia at Encyclopedia of Life
- Gardenia at USDA Plants database
- Gardenia at The Plant List
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