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These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. William Stearn (1911–2001) was one of the pre-eminent British botanists of the 20th century: a Librarian of the Royal Horticultural Society , a president of the Linnean Society and the original drafter of the ...
These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. William Stearn (1911–2001) was one of the pre-eminent British botanists of the 20th century: a Librarian of the Royal Horticultural Society , a president of the Linnean Society and the original drafter of the ...
Also, moving from leaves to roots, e.g. of molecular signals in plants. bathyphyll A specialized leaf produced at the base of a plant, usually when the plant is immature, and which serves to anchor the plant to a substrate; especially notable in the fern Teratophyllum. Contrast acrophyll. beak
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An individual Sphagnum plant consists of a main stem, with tightly arranged clusters of branch fascicles usually consisting of two or three spreading branches and two to four hanging branches. The top of the plant ( capitulum) has compact clusters of young branches that give the plant its characteristic tuft-like appearance.
Botanical nomenclature is closely linked to plant taxonomy, and botanical nomenclature serves plant taxonomy, but nevertheless botanical nomenclature is separate from plant taxonomy. Botanical nomenclature is merely the body of rules prescribing which name applies to that taxon (see correct name) and if a new name may (or must) be coined.
Lachnanthes ← [a] Lactuca sap ← Lagarosiphon ← Lagenaria ← Lagurus ← Lamium ← Lampranthus ← Illustration of Lathraea ← Leonotis ← Illustration of Leontodon ← Leontopodium ← Leonurus ← Leptotes ← Leucadendron ← Leucaena ← Leucanthemum and a butterfly ← Leucheria ← Ligularia ← Limnanthes ← Limnobium in an aquarium ← Limnocharis ← Limonium ← Liparis ← ...
Sphagnum platyphyllum has a complex taxonomic history. The species was first described as a variety, S. laricinum var. platyphyllum, by Robert Braithwaite in 1875. The earliest valid publication of the epithet platyphyllum is attributed to Braithwaite, not Sextus Otto Lindberg, although Lindberg was the first to use the epithet in the same combination.