page_title: List of descriptive plant epithets (I–Z)
section_title: Epithets
hierarchical_section_title: List of descriptive plant epithets (I–Z) / Epithets
caption_attribution_description: English: Twin-leaf myoporum (Myoporum oppositifolium), Beedelup Falls, Western Australia
context_page_description: Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plant species have been assigned one epithet for the species and one for their genus. These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. William Stearn 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 International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants.
  The first column below lists species epithets from Stearn's Dictionary, excluding proper nouns and proper adjectives. Also excluded are some repetitive suffixes for plant parts and colours, and epithets used only in species names that, for a variety of reasons, are no longer widely accepted.
  The third column frequently cites Charlton T. Lewis's An Elementary Latin Dictionary. The last three columns indicate citations to Latin for Gardeners by Lorraine Harrison, Botanical Latin by Stearn, and The A to Z of Plant Names by Allen Coombes.
caption: Myoporum oppositifolium←
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