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This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary of leaf morphology. For other related terms, see Glossary of phytopathology, Glossary of lichen terms, and ...
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: A–C, D–J, K–P, Q–Z; List of plant genus names with etymologies: A–C, D–K, L–P, Q–Z
The set of rules and recommendations for formal botanical nomenclature, including plants, is governed by the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants abbreviated as ICN. Plant description is a formal description of a newly discovered species , usually in the form of a scientific paper using ICN guidelines.
In contrast, this page deals with botanical terms in a systematic manner, with some illustrations, and organized by plant anatomy and function in plant physiology. [1] This glossary primarily includes terms that deal with vascular plants (ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms), particularly flowering plants (angiosperms).
Ba = listed in Ross Bayton's The Gardener's Botanical [5] Bu = listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names [6] CS = listed in both Allen Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names [7] and Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners G = listed in David Gledhill's The Names of Plants [8] St = listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant ...
A sign for Crassula rupestris at the University of Helsinki Botanical Garden. The roots for the binomial name are crassus (thick, fat) and rupestris (living on cliffs or rocks) This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the ...
The IPNI database is a collection of the names registered by the three cooperating institutions and they work towards standardizing the information. The standard of author abbreviations recommended by the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants is Brummitt and Powell's Authors of Plant Names. A digital and continually ...
Tropicos is an online botanical database containing taxonomic information on plants, mainly from the Neotropical realm (Central, and South America). It is maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden and was established in 1982. The database contains images and taxonomical and bibliographical data on more than 4.2 million herbarium specimens. In ...