Since the first edition 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. Related genera are in turn grouped into families. Each family's formal name ends in the Latin suffix -aceae and is derived from the name of a genus that is or once was part of the family.
The table below contains seed-bearing families from Plants of the World by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz (lead author), Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase, with two updated families from Plants of the World Online. The second column gives the family's original type genus, unless that name is no longer accepted in taxonomic databases. The fourth column gives an associated meaning, derivation or person.
Key
- LG: derived from a Greek word (G), a Latin word (L), another language (β), or a personal name (P)
- Ba: listed in Ross Bayton's The Gardener's Botanical
- Bu: listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names
- 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
- Gl: listed in David Gledhill's The Names of Plants
- Qu: listed in Umberto Quattrocchi's four-volume CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names
- St: listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners
- Linked numerical citations in the last column refer to Plants of the World.
Except for Plants of the World, these books list genera alphabetically. "Latin plant name" or "Greek plant name" in the fourth column means that the name appears in Classical Latin or Greek or both for some plant, not necessarily the plant listed here.
Families
See also
- Glossary of botanical terms
- List of Greek and Latin roots in English
- List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
- List of plant genera named for people: AβC, DβJ, KβP, QβZ
- List of plant genus names with etymologies: AβC, DβK, LβP, QβZ
Notes
- Calceolariaceae and Viburnaceae
- The arrows provide a link to the table row for the given genus.
- Except for the people with an indication in their name or description that they were known for something else, all are remembered for their work as naturalists, including amateur and professional botanists, zoologists, apothecaries, and collectors.
- Present-day geographical names are used wherever possible.
Citations
- Cullen, p. 38.
- ^ Christenhusz, p. 14.
- ICN, art. 18.
- Bayton.
- Burkhardt.
- Coombes.
- Gledhill.
- Quattrocchi1.
- Quattrocchi2.
- Quattrocchi3.
- Quattrocchi4.
- Stearn.
- Christenhusz, pp. 563β566.
- Christenhusz, pp. 323β324.
- Christenhusz, pp. 448β449.
- Christenhusz, p. 117.
- Christenhusz, pp. 503β504.
- Christenhusz, p. 420.
- Christenhusz, pp. 457β458.
- Christenhusz, pp. 401β402.
- Christenhusz, p. 122.
- Christenhusz, pp. 596β597.
- Christenhusz, pp. 144β145.
- Christenhusz, pp. 233β234.
- Christenhusz, pp. 356β357.
- Christenhusz, pp. 449β452.
- Christenhusz, pp. 170β171.
- Christenhusz, p. 88.
- Christenhusz, p. 468.
- Christenhusz, pp. 369β371.
- Christenhusz, pp. 441β442.
- Christenhusz, p. 284.
- Christenhusz, pp. 105β106.
- Christenhusz, p. 241.
- Christenhusz, pp. 358β359.
- Christenhusz, pp. 632β637.
- Christenhusz, pp. 525β529.
- Christenhusz, p. 283.
- Christenhusz, p. 126.
- Christenhusz, pp. 588β589.
- Christenhusz, pp. 118β120.
- Christenhusz, pp. 629β631.
- Christenhusz, p. 81.
- Christenhusz, pp. 177β179.
- Christenhusz, pp. 597β598.
- Christenhusz, pp. 100β101.
- Christenhusz, pp. 171β174.
- Christenhusz, p. 168.
- Christenhusz, pp. 160β161.
- Christenhusz, pp. 601β615.
- Christenhusz, pp. 444β445.
- Christenhusz, p. 109.
- Christenhusz, p. 92.
- Christenhusz, pp. 318β319.
- Christenhusz, pp. 424β425.
- Christenhusz, pp. 479β480.
- Christenhusz, p. 455.
- ^ Christenhusz, p. 268.
- Christenhusz, pp. 465β466.
- Christenhusz, pp. 407β408.
- Christenhusz, pp. 291β292.
- Christenhusz, pp. 219β220.
- Christenhusz, pp. 420β421.
- Christenhusz, p. 282.
- Christenhusz, p. 365.
- Christenhusz, pp. 566β568.
- Christenhusz, pp. 396β397.
- Christenhusz, p. 160.
- Christenhusz, p. 308.
- Christenhusz, pp. 529β532.
- Christenhusz, pp. 159β160.
- Christenhusz, pp. 415β419.
- Christenhusz, pp. 194β196.
- Christenhusz, p. 301.
- Christenhusz, pp. 617β618.
- Christenhusz, pp. 133β134.
- ^ Christenhusz, pp. 367β368.
- Christenhusz, p. 123.
- Christenhusz, pp. 227β228.
- Christenhusz, pp. 558β559.
- Christenhusz, p. 90.
- Christenhusz, pp. 468β470.
- ^ POWO.
- Christenhusz, pp. 310β311.
- Christenhusz, p. 107.
- Christenhusz, pp. 600β601.
- Christenhusz, pp. 591β594.
- Christenhusz, p. 141.
- Christenhusz, p. 95.
- Christenhusz, pp. 272β273.
- Christenhusz, p. 188.
- Christenhusz, pp. 412β413.
- Christenhusz, pp. 621β625.
- Christenhusz, p. 586.
- Christenhusz, pp. 404β405.
- Christenhusz, pp. 544β545.
- Christenhusz, pp. 313β314.
- Christenhusz, pp. 280β281.
- Christenhusz, pp. 293β295.
- Christenhusz, pp. 315β316.
- Christenhusz, pp. 300β301.
- Christenhusz, p. 212.
- Christenhusz, pp. 235β236.
- Christenhusz, p. 114.
- Christenhusz, pp. 321β322.
- Christenhusz, pp. 216β217.
- Christenhusz, pp. 397β398.
- Christenhusz, pp. 413β414.
- Christenhusz, pp. 504β505.
- Christenhusz, pp. 309β310.
- Christenhusz, pp. 145β146.
- Christenhusz, pp. 616β617.
- Christenhusz, pp. 345β346.
- Christenhusz, pp. 180β181.
- Christenhusz, p. 296.
- Christenhusz, pp. 534β535.
- Christenhusz, pp. 285β286.
- Christenhusz, pp. 477β479.
- Christenhusz, pp. 141β142.
- Christenhusz, pp. 284β285.
- Christenhusz, pp. 190β191.
- Christenhusz, pp. 239β241.
- Christenhusz, pp. 362β363.
- Christenhusz, p. 356.
- Christenhusz, pp. 303β304.
- Christenhusz, pp. 286β289.
- Christenhusz, pp. 298β299.
- Christenhusz, p. 84.
- Christenhusz, pp. 476β477.
- Christenhusz, pp. 73β74.
- Christenhusz, p. 139.
- Christenhusz, p. 131.
- Christenhusz, pp. 243β244.
- ^ Christenhusz, p. 200.
- Christenhusz, pp. 505β506.
- Christenhusz, pp. 385β386.
- Christenhusz, p. 236.
- Christenhusz, p. 175.
- Christenhusz, pp. 290β291.
- ^ Christenhusz, p. 104.
- Christenhusz, pp. 498β499.
- Christenhusz, p. 320.
- Christenhusz, pp. 464β465.
- Christenhusz, p. 231.
- Christenhusz, pp. 440β441.
- Christenhusz, pp. 134β135.
- Christenhusz, p. 384.
- Christenhusz, pp. 399β400.
- Christenhusz, pp. 163β164.
- Christenhusz, pp. 436β438.
- Christenhusz, p. 440.
- Christenhusz, pp. 491β492.
- Christenhusz, pp. 205β206.
- Christenhusz, p. 269.
- Christenhusz, pp. 299β300.
- Christenhusz, pp. 316β317.
- ^ Christenhusz, p. 409.
- Christenhusz, p. 78.
- Christenhusz, pp. 506β510.
- Christenhusz, p. 198.
- Christenhusz, pp. 305β306.
- Christenhusz, pp. 615β616.
- Christenhusz, p. 514.
- Christenhusz, pp. 332β336.
- Christenhusz, pp. 320β321.
- Christenhusz, p. 105.
- Christenhusz, p. 214.
- Christenhusz, pp. 249β259.
- Christenhusz, pp. 277β278.
- Christenhusz, p. 204.
- Christenhusz, pp. 482β484.
- Christenhusz, pp. 343β344.
- Christenhusz, p. 431.
- Christenhusz, p. 515.
- Christenhusz, p. 359.
- Christenhusz, p. 524.
- Christenhusz, pp. 520β522.
- Christenhusz, pp. 342β343.
- Christenhusz, p. 383.
- Christenhusz, pp. 548β551.
- Christenhusz, p. 75.
- Christenhusz, p. 456.
- Christenhusz, p. 77.
- Christenhusz, pp. 108β109.
- Christenhusz, pp. 599β600.
- Christenhusz, pp. 325β326.
- Christenhusz, pp. 627β628.
- Christenhusz, pp. 237β239.
- Christenhusz, p. 477.
- Christenhusz, p. 361.
- Christenhusz, pp. 229β230.
- Christenhusz, pp. 410β411.
- Christenhusz, pp. 183β184.
- Christenhusz, p. 466.
- Christenhusz, p. 243.
- Christenhusz, pp. 234β235.
- Christenhusz, pp. 179β180.
- Christenhusz, p. 186.
- Christenhusz, pp. 587β588.
- Christenhusz, p. 110.
- Christenhusz, pp. 295β296.
- Christenhusz, pp. 322β323.
- Christenhusz, p. 89.
- Christenhusz, pp. 473β474.
- Christenhusz, pp. 123β125.
- Christenhusz, pp. 542β543.
- Christenhusz, pp. 472β473.
- Christenhusz, pp. 302β303.
- Christenhusz, pp. 162β163.
- Christenhusz, pp. 512β513.
- Christenhusz, pp. 165β167.
- Christenhusz, p. 303.
- Christenhusz, pp. 236β237.
- Christenhusz, p. 164.
- Christenhusz, p. 338.
- Christenhusz, pp. 204β205.
- Christenhusz, pp. 279β280.
- Christenhusz, pp. 126β127.
- Christenhusz, pp. 454β455.
- Christenhusz, pp. 406β407.
- Christenhusz, p. 246.
- Christenhusz, p. 328.
- Christenhusz, pp. 573β578.
- Christenhusz, pp. 161β162.
- Christenhusz, p. 217.
- Christenhusz, pp. 112β113.
- Christenhusz, pp. 485β487.
- Christenhusz, pp. 569β570.
- Christenhusz, pp. 292β293.
- Christenhusz, pp. 149β150.
- Christenhusz, p. 453.
- Christenhusz, pp. 405β406.
- Christenhusz, pp. 337β338.
- Christenhusz, pp. 557β558.
- Christenhusz, pp. 474β476.
- Christenhusz, pp. 522β524.
- Christenhusz, p. 454.
- Christenhusz, p. 314.
- Christenhusz, pp. 429β430.
- Christenhusz, p. 185.
- Christenhusz, pp. 346β347.
- Christenhusz, p. 445.
- Christenhusz, p. 103.
- Christenhusz, pp. 317β318.
- Christenhusz, pp. 388β393.
- Christenhusz, pp. 189β190.
- Christenhusz, pp. 480β481.
- Christenhusz, p. 560.
- Christenhusz, p. 127.
- Christenhusz, p. 199.
- Christenhusz, p. 579.
- Christenhusz, pp. 142β143.
- Christenhusz, pp. 354β355.
- Christenhusz, pp. 380β381.
- Christenhusz, p. 218.
- Christenhusz, pp. 598β599.
- Christenhusz, pp. 513β514.
- Christenhusz, p. 446.
- Christenhusz, pp. 427β428.
- Christenhusz, p. 510.
- Christenhusz, p. 462.
- Christenhusz, p. 111.
- Christenhusz, pp. 463β464.
- Christenhusz, pp. 541β542.
- Christenhusz, pp. 273β274.
- Christenhusz, pp. 403β404.
- Christenhusz, pp. 386β387.
- Christenhusz, pp. 187β188.
- Christenhusz, p. 631.
- Christenhusz, pp. 278β278.
- Christenhusz, p. 102.
- Christenhusz, p. 229.
- Christenhusz, pp. 350β353.
- Christenhusz, pp. 132β133.
- Christenhusz, pp. 223β224.
- Christenhusz, pp. 438β439.
- Christenhusz, pp. 387β388.
- Christenhusz, pp. 365β366.
- Christenhusz, pp. 276β277.
- Christenhusz, pp. 460β462.
- Christenhusz, p. 91.
- Christenhusz, pp. 471β472.
- Christenhusz, pp. 306β308.
- Christenhusz, pp. 421β423.
- Christenhusz, pp. 545β547.
- Christenhusz, pp. 348β349.
- Christenhusz, p. 511.
- Christenhusz, pp. 423β424.
- Christenhusz, pp. 151β159.
- Christenhusz, pp. 582β584.
- Christenhusz, p. 297.
- Christenhusz, p. 232.
- Christenhusz, p. 302.
- Christenhusz, p. 140.
- Christenhusz, pp. 215β216.
- Christenhusz, p. 618.
- Christenhusz, pp. 326β328.
- Christenhusz, p. 581.
- Christenhusz, pp. 562β563.
- Christenhusz, pp. 357β358.
- Christenhusz, p. 625.
- Christenhusz, p. 410.
- Christenhusz, p. 594.
- Christenhusz, pp. 488β489.
- Christenhusz, pp. 242β243.
- Christenhusz, pp. 330β331.
- Christenhusz, pp. 231β232.
- Christenhusz, p. 382.
- Christenhusz, p. 143.
- Christenhusz, pp. 459β460.
- Christenhusz, pp. 131β132.
- Christenhusz, p. 597.
- Christenhusz, p. 147.
- Christenhusz, pp. 181β182.
- Christenhusz, pp. 579β580.
- Christenhusz, pp. 340β341.
- Christenhusz, pp. 586β587.
- Christenhusz, p. 444.
- Christenhusz, pp. 458β459.
- Christenhusz, pp. 363β364.
- Christenhusz, p. 339.
- Christenhusz, pp. 79β80.
- Christenhusz, p. 99.
- Christenhusz, pp. 628β629.
- Christenhusz, pp. 551β555.
- Christenhusz, pp. 224β225.
- Christenhusz, p. 544.
- Christenhusz, pp. 432β433.
- Christenhusz, pp. 206β211.
- Christenhusz, p. 82.
- Christenhusz, p. 311.
- Christenhusz, pp. 484β485.
- Christenhusz, pp. 261β262.
- Christenhusz, pp. 434β436.
- Christenhusz, pp. 182β183.
- Christenhusz, p. 467.
- ^ Christenhusz, p. 130.
- Christenhusz, pp. 128β129.
- Christenhusz, pp. 492β494.
- Christenhusz, pp. 225β226.
- Christenhusz, p. 315.
- Christenhusz, p. 248.
- Christenhusz, pp. 331β332.
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- Christenhusz, pp. 196β197.
- Christenhusz, pp. 411β412.
- Christenhusz, pp. 202β204.
- Christenhusz, pp. 442β443.
- Christenhusz, pp. 269β271.
- Christenhusz, pp. 304β305.
- Christenhusz, pp. 147β148.
- Christenhusz, p. 502.
- Christenhusz, pp. 262β267.
- Christenhusz, pp. 589β591.
- Christenhusz, pp. 516β520.
- Christenhusz, pp. 374β378.
- Christenhusz, pp. 222β223.
- Christenhusz, pp. 329β330.
- Christenhusz, pp. 408β409.
- Christenhusz, pp. 426β427.
- Christenhusz, pp. 371β374.
- Christenhusz, pp. 489β491.
- Christenhusz, p. 460.
- Christenhusz, pp. 398β399.
- Christenhusz, pp. 500β501.
- Christenhusz, p. 98.
- Christenhusz, pp. 238β239.
- Christenhusz, p. 125.
- Christenhusz, pp. 93β94.
- Christenhusz, pp. 570β571.
- Christenhusz, p. 428.
- Christenhusz, p. 83.
- Christenhusz, pp. 555β557.
- Christenhusz, p. 406.
- Christenhusz, pp. 378β380.
- Christenhusz, p. 443.
- Christenhusz, p. 108.
- Christenhusz, p. 487.
- Christenhusz, pp. 148β149.
- Christenhusz, pp. 536β541.
- Christenhusz, p. 394.
- Christenhusz, p. 542.
- Christenhusz, pp. 361β362.
- Christenhusz, pp. 360β361.
- Christenhusz, p. 138.
- Christenhusz, pp. 585β586.
- Christenhusz, pp. 559β560.
- Christenhusz, pp. 359β360.
- Christenhusz, pp. 184β185.
- Christenhusz, pp. 594β596.
- Christenhusz, pp. 499β500.
- Christenhusz, p. 260.
- Christenhusz, pp. 497β498.
- Christenhusz, pp. 466β467.
- Christenhusz, p. 432.
- Christenhusz, pp. 383β384.
- Christenhusz, p. 86.
- Christenhusz, pp. 164β165.
- Christenhusz, p. 242.
- Christenhusz, pp. 547β548.
- Christenhusz, pp. 289β290.
- Christenhusz, pp. 481β482.
- Christenhusz, pp. 496β497.
- Christenhusz, p. 571.
- Christenhusz, pp. 199β200.
- Christenhusz, pp. 394β396.
- Christenhusz, p. 281.
- Christenhusz, p. 121.
- Christenhusz, p. 627.
- Christenhusz, p. 319.
- Christenhusz, p. 93.
- Christenhusz, p. 136.
- Christenhusz, pp. 226β227.
- Christenhusz, pp. 402β403.
- Christenhusz, pp. 193β194.
- Christenhusz, pp. 271β272.
- Christenhusz, pp. 275β276.
- Christenhusz, p. 533.
- Christenhusz, p. 137.
- Christenhusz, pp. 572β573.
- Christenhusz, pp. 324β325.
- Christenhusz, pp. 244β245.
- Christenhusz, pp. 349β350.
- Christenhusz, p. 76.
- Christenhusz, p. 96.
- Christenhusz, pp. 167β168.
- Christenhusz, pp. 197β198.
- Christenhusz, pp. 74β75.
- Christenhusz, pp. 191β193.
- Christenhusz, pp. 127β128.
- Christenhusz, p. 247.
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Further reading
- Brown, Roland (1956). Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1-56098-848-9.
- Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-910205-1. Available online at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (2013) . An Intermediate GreekβEnglish Lexicon. Mansfield Centre, Connecticut: Martino Fine Books. ISBN 978-1-61427-397-4. Available online at the Perseus Digital Library.