Talk:List of plant genus names with etymologies (Q–Z)

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Notes

The fourth of four volumes in Quattrocchi's encyclopedia (R–Z) is on back-order. I've got the other three volumes already, so we'll get the other pages in this list done first, then come back to this one. - Dank (push to talk) 03:17, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Book is now due to arrive by November 20.
Warczewiczella: Stearn's spelling is Warscewiczella. - Dank (push to talk) 02:57, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ziziphus: Stearn's spelling is Zizyphus. - Dank (push to talk) 03:11, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The table has 521 rows. - Dank (push to talk) 17:35, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I cite Gledhill if he lists a word that's almost the same as the genus, but I never use his spelling unless someone else backs it up. - Dank (push to talk) 03:40, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm changing the selection criteria (for this page only) to delete the genera derivations that Stearn lists as "obscure" or nonexistent, or namesakes that are "little-known". Thanks kindly to Nomen ambiguum for last night's edit, which indicates a problem we haven't had with the previous lists (yet). Maybe it's random, but for this page (covering Q to Z), there are significantly more dead ends. Deleted so far: Ratibida, Ricotia, Roscheria. The table now has 518 rows. - Dank (push to talk) 03:10, 20 November 2020 (UTC) Now deleting Schima, Spergula, Talinum, Tolpis, and Tripsacum (4 "obscure", one "no derivation"). Table will have 513 rows. - Dank (push to talk) 03:24, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Addendum: Bayton is a source for Schima and Talinum, so I added those back. - Dank (push to talk) 15:22, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Concerning Rodriguezia: I can't find a source for the name that was added in the second column, but a Google search turned up this. - Dank (push to talk) 22:04, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  I may have gone to far is assuming that the Manuel Rodriguez, royal apothecary, cited by Ruiz & Pavon ("Genus dicatum D. Emmanueli Rodriguez Pharmacopoeo Regio , et in Botanices scientia versatissimo.") was the same as Juan Manuel Rodriguez de Luna, teacher of Gaspar Casal and also a royal apothecary, Manuel Rodriguez being a very common name.

Nomen ambiguum (talk) 14:38, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, it's your call, feel free to make the edit. - Dank (push to talk) 14:58, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In this edit, I removed the etymologies from 4 rows where the plant name already existed in Classical Latin or Greek. I'm working on putting some classical etymologies in a different series of lists. - Dank (push to talk) 21:35, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm neutral on the question of the namesake for Reynoutria. See this discussion. - Dank (push to talk) 16:21, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Round Two

See Talk:List of plant genus names (A–C)#Round Two. - Dank (push to talk) 19:47, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Now 403 rows. - Dank (push to talk) 20:02, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Botanical terms linked at least once, in order of appearance: anther, calyx, spathe, spadix, column, lip, style, umbel, corolla, pod, septum, spikelet, inflorescence, stamen, sepal, stigma, rhizome, staminode, nectary, achene, tuber, epiphyte. - Dank (push to talk) 13:34, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]