Diapensia

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Translingual

Diapensia lapponica

Etymology

Deriving from a misprinting in Leonhart Fuchs New Kreüterbuch (1543) for intended Medieval Latin dispēnsia from Medieval Latin dispēnsāre (“to free of disease”), synonym of sānicula now found in Sanicula.

Proper noun

Diapensia f

A taxonomic genus within the family Diapensiaceae – of alpine and arctic distribution.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids - clades; Ericales - order; Diapensiaceae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Diapensia lapponica - type species; Diapensia himalaica, Diapensia purpurea, Diapensia wardii - other species

References

Diapensia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Diapensia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Diapensia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Diapensia”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 205b–206a

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