List of plant genus names with etymologies (D–K)
Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's "Species Plantarum" in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. Many of these genera (genuses) are listed in "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 "International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants . The first column below contains seed-bearing genera from Stearn and other sources as listed, excluding those names that no longer appear in more modern works, such as Plants of the World" by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz (lead author), Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase. "Plants of the World" is also used for the family and order classification for each genus. The second column gives a meaning or derivation of the word, such as a language of origin. The last two columns indicate additional citations.