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Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) is a multilingual database of names of taxa of plants. The MMPND is located at the University of Melbourne, where it is managed and maintained by Michel H. Porcher. This database includes the names of taxa of more than 900 genera of higher plants (not counting mushrooms). In addition to the ...
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
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Bu: listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names [5] CS: listed in both Allen Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names and William T. Stearn's Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners [6] Gl: listed in David Gledhill's The Names of Plants [7] Qu: listed in Umberto Quattrocchi's four-volume CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names [8 ...
They can keep a large area free of the Mist. Laganaphyllis simnovorii: A carnivorous cow-like plant found in The Sims series of games, commonly known as the Cowplant. Lunar Tears, from the Nier series. Nirnroot: A rare, alchemical plant from The Elder Scrolls series. Piranha Plants: Plants with mouths from the Mario series, often depicted as ...
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A digitalized version of the index was issued on a compact disc. A digital version was incorporporated with other indexes as the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), and may fulfill the original intention – a complete index of plant names. [1] Entries at IPNI are designated with the abbreviation "(IK)". [8]
This category is primarily for articles whose title (and subject) is a common name for a plant that does not correspond to a single scientifically recognized species (or other taxonomic rank). There should generally be some shared characteristic that can be discussed in an article (e.g. cardamom is a spice derived from multiple species; tree ...