The Names of Plants

The Names of Plants gloeo- sticky-, gloia, gloioj, gloioGloeocapsa, gloeocapsus -a -um Sticky-box, gloio-kaya (the investing layers of mucilage) Gloeophyllum Sticky-leaf, gloio-fullon Gloeosporium Sticky-spored, gloio-sporoj (the spores of several parasitic imperfect fungi) glomeratus -a -um collected into heads, aggregated, glomerate, glomero, glomerare, glomeravi, glomeratum glomerulans clustering, accumulating, forming into balls, present participle of glomero, glomerare, glomeravi, glomeratum glomerulatus -a -um with small clusters or heads, from the diminutive of glomus glomeri- clustered-, crowded-, glomero, glomerare, glomeravi, glomeratum glomeruliflorus -a -um with small flower heads, diminutive of glomeri-florum gloriana glorious, a name for several Saxifraga hybrids, glorior, gloriari, gloriatus Gloriosa, gloriosus -a -um Superb, full of glory, gloriosus (the flowers) glossa-, glosso-, -glossus -a -um tongue-shaped-, -tongued, glwssa, glwsso-, Glossocalyx Tongue-calyx, glwsso-kaluc (the elongated calyx lobe) Glossodia Tongue-like, glwssa-eidw (the appendages on the labellum) glossoides tongue-like, glwssa-oeidhj glossomystax having a moustached lip or labellum, glwssa-mustac Glossonema Tongue-thread, glwsso-nhma (the stamens) Glossopetalon, Glossopetalum Tongue-petalled, glwsso-petalon (the narrow petals) Glossorhyncha Tongue-snouted, glwssa-rugxoj (the nectary-spur) Glossostelma Tongue-crowned, glwssa-stelma (the coronna) Glossostemon Tongue-stamened, glwssa-sthmwn (the androecium) Glossostigma Tongue-stigma, glwssa-stigma (the compressed stigma) glotti-, glotto-, -glottis -little-tongued, glwtta, glwtth, glwtto- (simile with the epiglottis, separating the oesophagus and trachea, below the tongue) Glottidium Little-tongue, diminutive variant of glwtta (for the mode of separation of the seeds) Glottiphyllum Tongue-leaved, glwtto-fullon (leaf-shape) Gloxineria the composite name for hybrids between Gloxinia and Gesneria Gloxinia for Peter Benjamin Gloxin of Comar, eighteenth-century physician and naturalist, author of Observationes botanicae, 1785 (florists’ Gloxinia is Sinningia) glumaceus -a -um with chaffy bracts, conspicuously glumed, with husks, gluma glumaris -is -e husk or chaff-like, gluma, glumae Glumicalyx Chaffy-calyx, botanical Latin from gluma and kaluc -glumis -is -e -glumed, gluma Gluta Glue, gluten, glutinis (for their exudations of Lac) glutiniferus -a -um having a sticky exudate, glue-bearing, gluten-fero glutinosus -a -um sticky, viscous, glutinous, with glue, gluten, glutinis Glyceria Sweet, glukuj, glukeroj (the sweet grain of Glyceria fluitans) glycicarpus -a -um having sweet fruit, glukuj-karpoj Glycine Sweet, glukuj (the roots of some species) (Glycine max seeds are wild soya beans, sauces are prepared by fermentation from G. soja) glycinoides resembling Glycine, Glycine-oides glyciosmus -a -um sweet-smelling, gluko-osmh glyco-, glycy- sweet-tasting or -smelling, glukeroj, glukuj, gluku-, glukoGlycosmis, glycosmus -a -um Sweet-smelling, gluko-odmh (fragrant flowers) glycyphyllos sweet-leaved, gluko-fullon (the taste) Glycyrrhiza (Glycorrhiza), glycyrrhizus -a -um Sweet-root, gluko-riza, glukurriza (the rhizomes are the source of the cognate, liquorice) Glyphia Engraved, glufw (the elongate grooves on the fruit wall, glufij a notch) glypho- marked, etched, engraved, glufw Glyphochloa Engraved-grass, glufw-xloh glypto- cut-into-, carved-, glupthj, gluptoglyptocarya having deeply grooved kernels, glupto-karuon 180