The Names of Plants

The Names of Plants latopinna with broad pinnae, latus-pinna latus -a -um wide, broad, latus lauchianus -a -um for Wilhelm Georg Lauche (1827–83), German gardener laudatus -a -um praised, lauded, excellent, laudo, laudare, laudavi, laudatum Laurelia Laurus-like, resembling the bay-tree Laurentia for M. A. Laurenti, seventeenth-century Italian botanist laureolus -a -um Italian name, diminutive of laurea, for Daphne laureola, from its resemblance and its use in garlands lauri- laurel-, Laurus-likelauricatus -a -um wreathed, resembling laurel or bays, laurus laurifolius -a -um laurel-leaved, Laurus-folium laurinus -a -um of laurel, laurel-like, laurus laurisylvaticus -a -um woodland or wild laurel, laurus-(silva, silvae) laurocerasi of cherry-laurels, Prunus laurocerasus (ground layer habitat under broad-leaves) laurocerasus laurel-cherry, laurus-cerasus (cherry-laurel) Laurus the Latin name, laurus, for laurel or bay (Celtic, laur, green) (Lauraceae) Laurustinus Laurel-like-Tinus lautus -a -um washed, elegant, neat, fine, lavo, lavare, lavi, lautum Lavandula To-wash, a diminutive from lavo, lavare, lavi, lautum (its use in the cleansing process) lavandulaceus -a -um resembling Lavandula lavandulae- lavender-, Lavandulalavandulifolius -a -um with leaves resembling Lavandula Lavatera for the brothers Lavater, eighteenth-century Swiss naturalists lavateroides Lavatera-like, Lavatera-oides lavatus -a -um washed, lavo, lavare, lavi, lautum lawrenceanus -a -um, lawrenci for Sir Trevor Lawrence (1831–1913), orchid grower and President of the Royal Horticultural Society 1885–1913 Lawsonia for Dr Isaac Lawson, eighteenth-century Scottish botanical traveller (henna plant, Lawsonia inermis) lawsonianus -a -um for P. Lawson (d. 1820), Edinburgh nurseryman laxi- open, loose, not crowded, spreading, distant, lax, laxus, laxilaxicaulis -is -e loose-stemmed, not having rigid stems, laxus-caulis laxiflorus -a -um loosely flowered; wide-flowered, laxus-florum laxifolius -a -um loosely leaved, with open foliage, laxus-folium laxissimus -a -um the most loose or spreading, superlative of laxus laxiusculus -a -um somewhat weak , drooping or loose, diminutive suffix on laxus laxus -a -um open, loose, not crowded, spreading, distant, lax, from laxo, laxare, laxavi, laxatum, to loosen Layia for George Tradescant Lay (1799–1845), naturalist with Beechey (tidy tips, the ligulate florets) lazicus -a -um from the Black Sea area of NE Turkey (Lazistan) lazulinus -a -um ultramarine, diminutive of lazulum (blackish-blue to violet-blue but not so intense as lapis-lazuli) lebbek an Arabian vernacular name for Albizzia lebbek lebomboensis -is -e from the Lebombo Mountains (Big-nose mountains), Swaziland/Mozambique, SE Africa lecano- basin-, dish-, lhkanh, lhkanoLecanodiscus Basin-disc, lhkano-diskoj (the concave floral disc) lecontianua -a -um, lecontei for Dr John Lawrence le Conte (1825–83), who found Ferocactus leconei in Arizona Lecythis Oil-jar, lhkuqoj (the shape of the leathery fruit from which the lid falls when mature) (Lecythidaceae) ledanon, ledanus -a -um, ledo-, ledi- gum; gummy, sticky, ledanon Ledebouria for Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1785–1851), student of the Russian flora 232