CRC World Dictionary of PLANT NAMES Common Names, Scientific Names, - Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology Volume I A—C we Umberto Quattrocchi ae Library of Congress Cataloging in-Publication Data Quattrocchi, Umberto, 1947— ‘CRC world dictionary of plant names : common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology / Umberto Quatirocci Pp em Incues bibliographical references Contents: v. LA-C — v. Il, DL —v. HL. M-Q—vIV.R-Z ISBN 0-8493-2673-7 (set). — ISBN 0-8493-2675-3 (. 1: alk, paper). ISBN 0-8493-2676-1 (v1: alk. paper). ISBN 0-8493-2677-X (6 II alk. paper). ISBN 0-8493-2678-8 (v. IV : alk paper) 1. Plant names. Popular Dictionaries. 2. Botany Nomenclature. 1. Tie I Tite: World dictionary of plant names. Qk 13.938 1999 SBO.1'4 de? 9931919 cp ‘This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Reprinted material is quoted with permission, and sources are indicted. A wide varity of references are listed. 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(© 2000 by CRC Press LLC [No claim to original US. Goverament works Iniernational Standard Book Number 0-8492-2673-7 (st) 0-8493-2675.3 (v1) Library of Congress Card Number 99-31919 Printed in the United States of America 123.456.7890 Printed on acitre paper Aa Reichb.f. Orchidaceae Origins: Perhaps from the first and final letters of the generic name Altensteinia, or simply to be first in the Aaronsohnia Warb. & Eig Asteraceae Origins: For the American botanist Aaron Aaronsohn, 1876/1877- 1919; see John H. Barnhart (1871-1949), Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 1: 1. Boston 1965. Origins: Perhaps from a vernacular name. Abbotia Raf. Juncaginaceae Origins: For the English (b. London) botanical artist John Abbot, 1751-circa 1840, plant collector in the U.S., 1773 to Vir~ ginia; see Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturists. 1, London 1994: (1876-1956), Index rafinesquianus. The plant names pub- lished by C.S. Rafinesque, etc. 73. Jamaica Plain, Massa- Abdominea J.J. Smith Orchidaceae Origins: Latin abdomen “abdomen,” referring to the shape of the rostellum, Abdra Greene Brassicaceae (alt. Cruciferae) Origins: ‘Am anagram of Draba. Abelia R. Brown Caprifoliaceae Origins: ‘Named after the British surgeon Clarke Abel, 1789-1826 (G. Cawnpore, India), botanist and plant collector, traveler, naturalist, from_ 7 wi Amherst_on his embassy to Peking, in 1818 joined the Linnean Society, in 1819 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. author of A Narrative of a Journey in the Interior ‘of China, [Botanical appendix by Robert Brown.] London 1818, from 1823 to 1826 with Lord Amherst in India; see ohn McLeod, Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, Alon; the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck. London 1817: see John H. Barnhart (1871-1949), Biographical Notes upon ‘Botanists. 1: 6. Boston 1965; Euan Hillhouse Methven Cox. lant-Hunting in China. § history of botanical exploration in China and the Tibetan marches. London 1945; Alice Margaret Coats, The Quest for Plants. A History of the chusetts, USA 1949; Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Horticultural Explorers. London 1969; see Ray Desmond, (1783-1840), New FL_N. Am. 1: 36, 37. 1836, Flora Tel- Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturist. Iuriana, 4: 32, 1836 [1838], The Good Book. 44, Philadel- phia 1840 and Autikon botanikon. Icones plantarum 2, 650. London 1994; Kenneth Lemmon, The Golden Age ‘of Plant Hunters. London 1968; Frances L. Jewett, Plant select. nov. vel rariorum, etc. 65. Philadelphia 1840. Hunters. Boston 1958; Charles Lyte, The Plant Hunters. Origins: ‘fier the Australian (English-born, Derby) gardener Francis Abbott, 1834-1903 (Hobart, Tasmania), botanist, from 1859 to 1903 Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens, Hobart; see Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller (1825-1896), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. 9: 181. 1875. London 1983; G. Murray, History of the Collections Con- tained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London 1904; Michael S. Tyler-Whittle, The Plant Hunters. Philadelphia 1970; Henry N. Ridley. The Dispersal of Plants Throughout the World. Ashford, Kent 1930; Joseph Lanjouw (1902-1984) and Frans Antonie Stafleu (1921-1997), Index Herbariorum. Part I, Collectors A-D. Regnum Vegetabile vol. 2. 1954; 3.G. Lockhart, Peril of the Sea. A Book of Shipwrecks and Escapes. London 1928; Antoine Lastgue (1793-1873), Musée botanique de M, Benjamin Delessert, 435. Paris, Leipzig 1845; Emil Abeliophyllum Nakai Oleaceae Bretschneider (1833-1901), History of European Botanical Discoveries in China. [Reprint of the original edition, St. Petersburg 1898.] Leipzig 1981; Ethelyn (Daliactie) Maria Tucker, Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts 1917- 1933; Mea Allan, The Hookers of Kew. London 1967; Henry Ellis, Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China. [This is the official account of Amherst’s embassy to China, on which Ellis was the third commissioner.] Phil- adelphia 1818; R. Zander, F. Encke, G. Buchheim and S. Seybold, Handworterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Aufl. 673, Stuttgart 1993; F. Boerner & G. Kunkel, Taschen- worterbuch der botanischen Pftanzennamen, 4. Aufl. 50. Berlin & Hamburg 1989. Species/Vernacular Names: A. floribunda Decne. English: Mexican abelia A. x grandiflora (André) Rehder (Abelia rupestris hort. non Lindl; Abelia rupestris var. grandiftora André; Abelia chinensis hort. non R. Br.) English: glossy abelia Japan: hana-tsuku-bane-utsugi (= flowering Abelia) A. ionandra Hayata Japan: Taiwan-tsuku-bane-utsugi Abeliophyllum Nakai Oleaceae Origins: ‘The genus Abelia R. Br. and phyllon “leaf,” the leaves resemble those of Abelia. Abelmoschus Medik. Malvaceae Origins: Probably from the Arabian abul-l-mosk “father of musk, source of musk,” referring to the seeds. Species/Vernacular Names: A. esculentus (L.) Moench (Hibiscus esculentus L.) English: lady's finger, okra, gumbo, gombo, edible hibiscus Brazil: quiabo (Belém, Brazilian Amazonia; see also Ignacio Baptista de Moura, ed., Annuario de Belém em commemoragao do seu tricentenario, 1616-1916, his- torico, literario e commercial. (Par?) 1915), quilombo Cuba: quimbombs India: bhindi, bendi, bhendi, bhindi tori, bhenda, bhinda, binda, bhindu, bhende, bendai, bhendekayi, bhendan, bhandaka, babniya, bamiyah, bendakaya, vendakaya, vendaikkay, vendi, venda, venda bendi, vendai, tindisha, pitali, gandhamula, ramturai, dheras Sri Lanka: bhandaka China: huang shu kuei Japan: okura ‘The Philippines: okra Malawi: nathando, cilunguthando, thelele lobzala, thelele Ta amwenye (Nyanja; see also Rev. David Clement Scott, Dictionary of the Nyanja Language, being the encyclopedic dictionary of the Mang’anja language edited and enlarged by the Rev. Alexander Hetherwick. London 1951) ‘Senegal: kanda a kob, kandalan (Serere); sumaré, kanda ala (Wolof); da guo (Bambara; see G. Binger, Essai sur la langue Bambara. Parlée dans le Karta et dans le BElé- dougou. Paris 1886); kunégo (Diola); kanda (Serere and Yolof) lasa, ila, ilasado, erula, irula, iroko (see Piere Fatumbi Verger, Ewé: The Use of Plants in Yoruba Society. Sio Paulo 1995; Celia Blanco, Santeria Yoruba, Caracas 1995; Maria Helena Farelli, Plantas que curam e cortam Jeitigas, Rio de Janeiro 1988; William W. Megenney, A Bahian Heritage. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1978) ‘A. manihot (L.) Medik. (Hibiscus manihor L.) English: sunset hibiscus India: kantalo bhendo, jangali bhendi, ran bhendi, usipak Southeast Asia: aibika Japan: tororo-20i China: huang shu kuei A. moschatus Medik. (Hibiscus abelmoschus L.) English: musk mallow Brazil: abelmosco, ambarino, algélia (see Rubem Franca, Arabismos, Recife 1994) Japan: Rydiky-tororo-aoi India: kala-kasturi, kattakasturi, kattukkasturi, Katukasthuri, kattukkasthuri, vattilaikasturi, Kattuk-kasturi, kasturiven- daik-kayvirai, kadu-kasturi, kasturi-dana, kasturibenda, kasturi-bhenda, kasturi-bhendo, kasturi-benda-vittulu, latakasturikam, latakasturika, zatakasturika, mushk-dana, ‘mushak-dana, mishkdana, mushakdana, muskdana, mushk- bhendi-ke-jij, karpuri-benda, kapukimissa, gandapura, vart- tilai kasthuri, gorukhia-korai ‘The Philippines: kastuli, dalupang, daopang, kalupi, kastio, <dukum, marapoto, marikum, agukai, dalak Aberia Hochst. Flacourtiaceae Origins: From Mt. Aber, Abyssinia; see Gordon MacCreagh, The Last of Free Africa. The Account of an Expedition into Abyssinia, Second edition. NY, Appleton-Century 1935. ‘Abrodictyum C. Presl Hymenophyllaceae Al Miller Pinaceae Origins: Latin abies, etis “the silver-fir, ship”; Greek elate, and Akkadian elatu “upper parts,” gab'u “height”; see Pietro Bubani, Flora Virgiliana. 11. (Ristampa dell’edizione di Bologna 1870] Bologna 1978; Antonella Comba, a cura di, Antica Medicina Tibetana, Tavole miniate del Berillo azzurro di Sangye Gyamtso (XVII sec.). Zanfi Editori, ‘Modena 1994; Aljos Farjon, World Checklist and Bibliog- raphy of Conifers. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1998. ‘Species/Vernacular Names: A. Sp. ‘Tibetan: shing-gsom A. concolor (Gordon & Glendinning) Hildebrand (Picea concolor Gordon & Glendinning) English: white fir, Rocky Mountain white fir Mexico: pino real blanco A. densa Griff. English: east Himalayan fir Bhutan: dungshing Nepal: gobre salla A. firma Siebold & Zuce. English: momi fir, Japanese fir Japan: momi A. hickelii Flous & Gauss. Mexico: yaga lagaxi, yaga lagaxe, lagaaxi A. pindrow Royle English: Himalayan fir, silver fir Nepal: thingure A. religiosa (Kunth) Schitdl. & Cham. English: sacred fir Mexico: yaga lagaxi, yaga lagaxe, lagaaxi A. sachalinensis (Schmidt) Mast. English: Sachalin fir, Sakhalin fir A. spectabilis (D. Don) Spach English: Himalayan fir, Himalayan silver fir talisapatram, talispatra, talispatri, taleesapatram, Abildgaardia Vahl Cyperaceae Origins: For the Danish veterinarian Peder Christian Abildgaard, 1740-1801, author of Historia brevis Regit InsttutiVeterinarit Hafniensis. Hafniae [Copenhagen] 1788, with Erik Nissen Viborg (1759-1822) wrote Handbuch der Naturlehre fiir Thierdrcte. Aus dem Dinischen iibersetzt von C.H. Pfaff. Kopenhagen 1802. See Sir William Hamilton (Ambassador to the Court of Naples), Efterretning om det sidste Udbrud af... Vesuvius ... [*Account of the last eruption of Mount Vesuvius"} Med Anmaerkninger af PC. Abildgaard. Kopen- hagen 1796; Otto Friedrich Milller (1730-1784), Zoologia Danica, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notorum descriptiones et historia... Volumen tertium C-quartum) deseripsit et tabulas addidit P.C. Abildgaard. Havniae (Copenhagen) 1788-1806; Martin H. Vahl (1749- 1804), M. Vahlii ... Enumeratio Plantarum. 2: 296, 1805; Carl Frederik Albert Christensen (1872-1942), Den danske Botaniks Historie med tilhorende Bibliografi. Copenhagen 1924-1926 and Den danske botaniske litteratur 1880-1911. Kopenhagen 1913, Abobra Naudin Cucurbitaceae Origins: A vernacular name; see Theodoro Peckolt,“Plantas medic- inais e tteis do Brasil” R. Flora Medicinal. 3(4): 203-214. Rio de Janeiro (jan.) 1937; Rubem Franca, Arabismos, Rec~ ife 1994; William W. Megenney, A Bakian Heritage. Uni- versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1978; Helmut Genaust, Etymologisches Worterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen. 31. Birkhiiuser Verlag, Basel 1996; F. Boerner & G. Kunkel, Taschenworterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen. 4. Aufl. 50. Berlin & Hamburg 1989. Species/Vernacular Names: A. tenuifotia (Gillies) Cogn. Brazil: tempero-do-diablo Abortopetalum Degener Malvaceae Origins: Latin abortus, us “abortion, miscarriage” and petalum “petal.” Abrochis Necker Orchidaceae Origins: Greek abrochos “dry, unwetted, unmoistened, waterless,” an allusion to the habitat Abrodictyum C. Pres| Hymenophyllaceae Origins: Greek habros “delicate, graceful, beautiful, pretty” and dik- ‘yon “a net” ‘Abroma Jaca, Sterculiaceae Abroma Jacq. Sterculiaceae Origins: Greek a “not” and broma “food,” referring to the poisonous nature. Species/Vernacular Names: A. augusta (L.) Lf. English: devil’s cotton India: olaktambol, uchchata, ulutkambal Malaya: rami sengat Abromeitia Mez Myrsinaceae Origins: For the German botanist Johannes Abromeit, 1857-1946, botanical explorer, traveler, in South America (Andean region), professor of botany; see J.H. Bamhart, Biograph- ical Notes upon Botanists. 1: 8. 1965; Theodore W. Bossert, Biographical Dictionary of Botanists Represented in the Hunt Institute Portrait Collection. 2. Boston, Massachusetts, 1972; Ignatz. Urban, Geschichte des Koniglichen Botanis- chen Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem (1815-1913). Nebst Aufedthlung seiner Sammlungen. 1916. Abromeitiella Mez Bromeliaceae Origins: For Johannes Abromeit, 1857-1946, explorer, botanist, in South America (Andean region). Abronia Juss. Nyetaginaceae Origins: Greek habros “delicate, soft,” referring to the involucre. Species/Vernacular Names: A. alpina MK. Brandegee English: Ramshaw Meadows abronia Abrophyllum Hook.f. ex Benth. Grossulariaceae (Escalloniaceae) Origins: From the Greek habros “delicate, soft” and phyllon “leaf,” referring to the beauty of the leaves. Abrotanella Cass. Asteraceae (alt. Compositae) Origins: Habrotonon was the ancient Greck name for a species of Artemisia, southernwood (Theophrastus HP. 6.7.3), Latin abrotonum, habrotonum, abrotonus fora plant ofa pleasant, aromatic smell, southernwood (Plinius). Abrus Adans. Fabaceae Origins: Probably from the Greek habros “delicate, graceful, beau- tiful, pretty, soft,” the leaves are soft; Akkadian ebru, ibri, Hebrew haber, Aramaic habra “favorite slave, friend”; Akkadian habaru, kabaru “to become fat, thick,” kabru “fat”; see Helmut Genaust, Etymologisches Worterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen. 32. Basel 1996; Georg Chris- tian Wittstein, Etymologisch-botanisches Handworterbuch. 2. Ansbach 1852. ‘Species/Vernacular Names: A. precatorius L. (Glycine abrus L.) (Latin, relating to prayer) English: bead vine, coral-bead plant, red bead plant, prayer beads, weather plant, weather vine, crab’s eyes, jequirity, Jequirity bean, jecquirity bean, jequerity seeds, lucky bean, recatory bean, Paternoster beans, licorice bean, Indian lic- orice, Indian liquorice, Jamaica liquorice, wild liquorice, licorice vine, love pea, rosary pea, wild licorice, black-eyed French liane réglisse, néglisse du pays, oeil de paon, rég- lisse sauvage Brazil: geriginiti, juriquiti, tento-dos-mudo: pombo, periquit, agacu-mirim, arvociro, jeriq inqueriti, tento-arvoeiro, olho-de-cabra Australia: gidee gidee, wild jumble Zimbabwe: muTiti, mu Piti (Shona; see Father M. Hannan, Standard Shona Dictionary. Compiled for the Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs Department. London 1959) ‘Congo: ikegne, mangala IN. Rhodesia: mukenyenge, mikube Nigeria: idon-zakara, iwere-jeje, mesen-mesen Yoruba: aladun, mesenmesen, mako, misinmisin, oju ologbo, werenjeje, pakun obarisa, olatogege, adagbe, ewe aladun, mesenmesen itakun, oju eyele Madagascar: voamaintilany, voameena, hanana, kelimiefitra, liane réglisse, réglisse du pays, pater noster India: gunja, gunchi, gurj, gunj, kunni, kunri, chashami- Khurosa, rati, gaungchi, ghumachi, gumchi, chanothi, kainch, kunch, koonch, guruginia, gundumani, gundu-mani, ‘Abutilon Miller Malvaceae kunthamani, gurugunji, guluganji, mulati, shangir, kead, arakead, ain-ed-dik (the seeds) China: xiang si i, hsiang ssu tau, hung tou Tibetan: mda'-rgyus Vietnam: cam thao day, day chi chi, cam sao, cuom thao Malaya: akar saga, akar belimbing, saga akar, saga betina Japan: t0-azuki, ahadan ‘The Philippines: saga, laga, bugayong, bugaiong, agaion, aguiang-iang, gikos-gikos, kaloo, manggadolong, matang- pune, oiangia, gumaing Hawaii: pukiawe, pukiawe lei, pukiawe lenalena, pupuki- awe A. precatorius L.. subsp. africanus Verde. (Abrus squamu- losus E. Mey.) English: coral-bead plant, crab’s eyes, jecquirity bean, love bean, lucky bean, minnie minnies, prayer bean, rosary pea Southern Africa: amabope (Ndebele); nsisani (Tsonga); mturituri (Swahili) A. pulchellus Wallich ex Thwaites English: liquorice root Malaya: kachang inai Absolmsia Kuntze Asclepiadaceae Origins: For the German botanist Hermann Maximilian Carl Ludwig Friedrich zu Solms-Laubach, 1842-1915, bryologist, pro- fessor of botany, plant collector, 1889-1908 co-editor of Botanische Zeitung, 1909-1915 co-founder and editor of Zeitschrift fir Botanik; see John H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 3: 301. 1965; .W. Bossert, Bio- graphical Dictionary of Botanists Represented in the Hunt Institute Portrait Collection, 376. 1972; EM. Tucker, Cat- logue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts 1917-1933; S. Len- ley et al., Catalog of the Manuscript and Archival Collec- tions and Index to the Correspondence of John Torrey. Library of the New York Botanical Garden, 469. 1973; Stafleu and Cowan, Taxonomic Literature. 5: 729-735. Utre- cht 1985; R. Zander, F. Encke, G. Buchheim and S. Seybold, Handworterbuch der Pflanennamen, 14, Aufl. Stuttgart 1993. Abuta Aublet Menispermaceae Origins: A native name for Abuta rufescens Aublet, called abouta or abuta by the Garipons, French Guiana, Species/Vernacular Names: A. rufescens Aubl. English: white Pareira root Brazil: absitwa, abstus Abutilon Miller Malvaceae Origins: From the Arabic name for a plant, aubutilun. Species/Vernacular Names: A. eryptopetalum (F. Muell.) F. Muell. ex Benth. (Sida eryptopetala F. Muell.) English: bill lantern flower A. grandifolium (Willd.) Sweet (Sida grandifolia Willd.; Abutilon kauaiense Hochr.; Abutilon molle (Ort.) Sweet) English: hairy abutilon, velvet-leaf Hawai Portuguese: abutilio A. x hybridam hort. En; maple Portuguese: campainhas A. incanum (Link) Sweet English: hoary abutilon Hawaii: ma’o A. indicum (L.) Sweet English: moon flower, country mallow ‘The Philippines: malbas, malis, marbas, malvas, lulupau, Tuplupau, dalupang, palis, pis, taratakopes, tabing, takbi- takbi, giling-gilingan, kuakuakohan China: mo pan cao Hong Kong: tung k’uei tzu Vietnam: giang xay, coi xay Malaya: kambong lubok, kembang lubok, kisar, malbar A. megapotamicum (Spreng.) St-Hil. & Naudin English: trailing abutilon A, menziesii Seem, Hawaii: ko'oloa ‘ula A. pictum (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Walp. (Abutilon striatum G. Dickson ex Lindl.) Japan: shojo-ka A. sonneratianum (Cav.) Sweet (Abutilon umtaliense Bak.) (after the French botanist, explorer and colonial administrator Pierre Sonnerat, 1748-1814, naturalist and traveler, author of Voyage d la nouvelle Guinée. Paris 1776 and Voyage aux Indes Orientales et & la Chine, fait par a’o : Chinese lantern, Chinese bellflower, flowering Abutilothamnus Ulbe. Malvaceae ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. Paris 1782; see JH. Bamhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 3: 303. 1965; ELM. Tucker, Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachu- setts 1917-1933; Mary Gunn and Leslie Edward W. Codd, Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa. 329-330. [b. 1745] A.A. Balkema, Cape Town 1981) English: wild hibiscus ‘Southern Africa: wildemalva (Afrikaans); lethseane (Sotho) A. theophrasti Medikus (Abutilon avicennae Gaertner) English: swamp Chinese lantern, Chingma lantern, velvet leaf, butter print China jute, Chinese jute, China jute, Chi- nese hemp, Indian mallow, Manchurian jute China: ging ma, hsiang ma Japan: ichibi India: jaya, nahani Khapat Abutilothamnus Ulbr. Malvaceae Origins: ‘The genus Abutilon and Greek thamnos “bush, shrub.” Acacallis Lindley Orchidaceae Origins: Greek akakalis, akakalidos “narkissos,* for Dioscorides, a all of the Oriental tamarisk; Acacallis (Akakallis) was a nymph, mother of Philander and Phylacis by Apollo. Acacia Miller Mimosaceae (Part I) Origins: From the Greek akakia (ake, akis “tip thor, a sharp point") used by Dioscorides; Akkadian kakkum “weapon, shaft, thorn.” gamu “to rise up, stand up, exist”; Hebrew hoah “thorn” and hagag "to cut, engrave.” The Greek philosopher ‘Theophrastus (-os) (circa 371-287 aC.) in De Historia Plantarum refers to the Akakia arabicai Species/Vernacular Names: A. 8p. ‘Tropical America: palo barroso Argentina: aroma Guatemala: cacho de toro Nicarag Colombia: guacamayo Guatemala and Belize (British Honduras): ixcanal comnizuelo ‘Mexico: yaga guiche, yaga quijche, yaga guichiaa, quichiaa India: kabul, kauria, ramkanta Burma: kaing-sha, kon-sha Malaya: bunga siam Japan: Okinawa-nemu, ninninba Abyssinia: worr worr East Africa: umkamba Nigeria: gwolege, bagaruwa, gardayi, bauje, galivi, kush- kudu, uke Yoruba: ewon ehoro ‘A. acuminata Bentham Australia: jam scented acacia, raspberry scented acacia, Jjamwood, raspberry jamwood A. albida Del. (Faidherbia albida (Del.) A. Chev.; Acacia ‘mossambicensis Bolle) (see Christo Albertyn Smith, Com- mon Names of South African Plants. Edited by E. Percy Phillips and Estelle Van Hoeppen. Pretoria 1966) English: ana tree, white thorn, white acacia, apple-ring aca- cia, winter thorn French: arbre blanc Ethiopia: aqba (Tigre); derot, garbi (Orominya); garsha, momona (Tigrinya); gerbi (Amharinya and Guragenya); maman (Sahonya); qeretor (Gamonya) Mali: balanzan Namibia: anaboom; omue (Herero; see H. Beiderbecke, Life ‘Among the Hereros in Africa. New York 1922); anab/s (Nama/Damara); omuyele (Ndonga, Kwanyama); mbunga Lozi) Southern Africa: ana baum, ahua baum, anaboom. apies- doring, muUnga; umHlalankwazi (= the tree where the fish eagle sits), umKhaya-womfula, umKhaya wemfula (Zulu); mmolela (Tsonga or Shangaan or Thonga; sce Rev. Ch. W. Chatelain, Pocket Dictionary: Thonga (Shangaan)-English and English-Thonga (Shangaan). Lausanne 1909; Henti Philippe Junod, NwaMpfundla-NwaSisana. (The Romance of the Hare). (Written in the new Tsonga Orthography] Pretoria 1940); mokosho (Mangwato dialect, Botswana); mogabo, mogohlo (North Sotho); muhoto (Venda); omue (Herero), andheis, ands (southern southwest Africa, Nama) ‘Angola: ohué, ué, muheia (Umbundu:; see Gladwyn Murray Childs, Umbundu Kinship and Character. London 1949; Merlin Ennis, Umbundu: Folk Tales from Angola. Boston 1962; Rey. William H. Sanders & WE. Fay, Vocabulary of the Umbundu Language Comprising Umbundu-English and English-Umbundu. West Central African Mission [? Kamun- dongo, Angola}, A.B.C.EM. 1911); omué (Tiiherero); omu- nyére, omunyéle (Lunyaneka) North Nigeria: gawo (Hausa; see Charles Henry Robinson, Dictionary of the Hausa Language. Cambridge 1899-1900; R, Sutherland Rattray, Hausa Folklore, Customs, Proverbs, ‘Acacia Miller Mimosaceae (Part 1) etc. Oxford 1913; G. Merrick, Hausa Proverbs. London 1905; David Heathcote, The Arts of the Hausa. A Common- wealth Institute Exhibition, World of Islam Festival. Lon- don 1976; Arthur John Newman Tremeame, The Niger and the West Sudan or the West African’s Note Book. London 1910; HE. Backwell, ed., The Occupation of Hausaland, 1900-1904. Lagos 1927) Nigeria: ege, gawo, karage, karaguk, hazar; gawo (Hausa); kyaski (Fula); karage (Kanuri; see Johannes Lukas, A Study of the Kanuri Language. London 1937); haraza (Shuwa Arabic) Malawi: chitonya, nsangu, msangumsangu (Yao, Tumbuka) Zambia: munga, musangu (also Mitragyna macrophylla, Rubiaceae) Sudan: harar Sahara: ahetes Arabic: haras, haraz, ‘afrar,telh lebiad; (the fruits) kharrub Berber: ahates, ahades, temahaq, azawo (see G.H. Bousquet, Les Berbéres. Paris 1957; Gabriel Camps, Ber- eres: aux marges de I'Histoire. Barcelone 1980) German: weissholz ‘A. aneura Bentham (Racosperma aneurum (Bentham) Ped- ley; Acacia aneura Benth. var. latifolia J. Black) English: mulga Eastern Australia: myall A. angustissima (Mill.) Kuntze Mexico: yaga fupi A. arenaria Schinz (Acacia hermannii Bak.f.; Acacia rufobrunnea N.E. Br.) Southern Africa: sand acacia A. armata NE. Br. English: kangaroo thorn A. ataxacantha DC. (Acacia eriadenia Benth.; Acacia lugardiae N.E. Br) (Greek ataxacantha “scattered, irregu- lar thorns,” from ataris and akantha) English: flame thorn Yoruba: ewon adele, ewon Mali: wuwagha, bonzoni, koroco Southern Africa: vlamdoring, rank wag-’n-bietjie, kaffer- wag-'n-bietjie, wag-'n-bietjie (meaning wait-a-bit ... thorns), tierbos (Afrikaans); muChanga, muTshanga (Shona, Zimbabwe); umThathawe, uBophe, uGagane (Zulu); umNga (Xhosa; see Sir Robert Tredgold, Xhosa: Tales of Life from the African Veld. London 1973); luGagane (Swazi); mooka-tau (western Transvaal, northern Cape, Botswana); mokgwa (Kwena dialect, Botswana), mokuku (Tawana dialect, Ngamiland); mologa (North Sotho: north and northeast Transvaal); muluwa (Venda); mogotau (Botswana, eastern Caprivi); mokona (Kololo, Barotscland) A. auriculiformis A. Cunn. ex Benth. (Racosperma auri- culiforme (A. Cunn. ex Benth.) Pedley) English: acacia tree A. baileyana F, Muell. English: Bailey’s wattle, golden mimosa Australia: Cootamundra wattle A. borleae Burtt Davy (Acacia barbertonensis Schweick.) (the species named after Mrs. J.M. Borle, born 1880, Swiss, at the American Mission at Chicuque, a botanical collector in Portuguese East Africa, 1920 Mozambique, and also in Northern and Southern Rhodesia 1921) English: sticky thorn, sticky acacia Southern Africa: kleefdoring, gomdoring (Afrikaans); ‘uSaku, umSinga, iSama, iSangawe, uBhidi (Zulu); luBibi (Swazi) A. brachybotrya Benth. Australia: grey mulga A. brevispica Harms subsp. dregeana (Benth.) Brenan (Acacia brevispica Harms var. dregeana (Benth.) J.H. Ross & Gordon-Gray; Acacia pennata sensu E, Meyer var. dregeana Bentham) English: prickly thorn Southern Africa: dorinkiedoring; umThathawe, uBobhe (Zulu) A. burkei Benth. (Acacia ferox Benth.) (the specific name after J. Burke, botanical collector) English: black monkey thorn Southern Africa: swartapiesdoring, black apiesdoring, bruin- apiesdoring, geelapiesdoring, apiesdoring, haakdoring (Afri- kaans); umKhaya weblalahlathi, umKhaya, umBabampala, umuNga (Zulu); mokotokoto (western Transvaal, northern Cape, Botswana); mokgwa (Kwena and Ngwaketse dialects, Botswana); mokoba (Mangwato dialect, Botswana; Tawana dialect, Ngamiland); mokgwaripa, mongangatau (North Sotho: north and northeast Transvaal) A. caffra (Thunb,) Wild. (Acacia caffra Willd. var. longa Glover; Acacia caffra Willd. var. tomentosa Glover; Acacia caffra Willd. var. namaquensis Eckl. & Zeyh.; Acacia caffra Willd. var. rransvaalensis Glover; Acacia fallax E. Mey.; Acacia multijuga Meisn.) English: common hook thorn, cat thorn, water thorn, kaffir thorn, white thorn Southern Africa: gewone haakdoring, kaffirdoring, kaffer- wag-’n-bietjie, katdoring, Amaquasdoornboom (Afri- kaans); muKoka, muPumpu, muGuhwa (Shona); umNya- manzi (meaning water thorn), umTholo (Xhosa); umThole, umTholo, umThloto (Zulu); mositsane (western Transvaal, northern Cape, Botswana); morutlhware (Kwena dialect, Botswana); morutlhare (Malete dialect, Botswana); morut- Ihatshana, morunthatana (Ngwaketse dialect, Botswana); ‘Acacia Miller Mimosaceae (Part!) mositsane, motholo, moroba (north and northeast ‘Transvaal); muvunda-mbado (= the axe-breaker) (Venda) A. catechu (L-f.) Willd. (Mimosa catechu L.f.) English: black cutch, Wadalee-gum tree, cutch, black cate- chu, cutch tree, Jerusalem thorn, catechu Brazil: catechu, cato, cachu, cato-de-pegu, terra-japOnica India: khadira, khayer, khoiru, kanchu, khair, karangalli, kkachu; kaderi, kagli, Khair, lal-khair, shemi (Bombay); karan-galli (Deccan); koir (Assam); sandra (Madras) China: hai er cha, eth ch’a, hai erh ch’a, wu tieh ni Nepal: khair Tibetan: seng-Ideng, gsom seng-Ideng, skyer seng-ldeng, tsan-dan seng-Ideng Burma: nya, sha, shaji, tun-sa-se Kenya and Tanzania: mgenda, mgunga (Usambara Moun- tains) ‘Tropical Africa and Asia: cutch tree A. caven (Molina) Molina (Acacia cavenia (Molina) Hook. & Am.) South America: churgui negro A. celastrifotia Benth Australia: glowing wattle A. confusa Mert. (Racosperma confusum (Mert) Pedley) Japan: soshi-ju, soshigi Hawaii: Formosa koa A. continua Benth. English: thorn wattle A. cyclops A. Cun. ex G. Don (Acacia eyelopis A. Cun. ex Loudon) English: red eye, redwreath acacia, coastal wattle, western coastal wattle Southern Africa: baaibos, hoenderboom, rooikrans, rooipit ie), roopitjie A. davyi NE. Br. (after the British botanist Joseph Burtt Davy, 1870-1940, founder of the Pretoria National Herbarium. He wrote A Manual of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Transvaal with Swaziland, South Africa. London (Longmans, Green & Co.) 1926-1932, “The vernacular and botanical names of some South African plants.” Transv. Agric. J.2: 298- 313, 1904; see John H. Bamhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 1: 427. 1965) English: corky thorn, paper-bark thorn Southern Africa: kurkdoring, isikwishi, papierdoring; isiKh- wishi, iPhuthwa (Zulu); umGamba (Swazi); mologa-tshelo (north and northeast Transvaal); musaunga (Venda) A. dealbata Link English: blue wattle, silver wattle, mimosa ‘Southern Africa: silver wattle, silwerwattel, bloubasboom, waalwattel A. decora Reichb. English: Western silver wattle ‘A. decurrens (Wendl.) Willd. English: green wattle, early black wattle Brazil: acécia preta Southern Aftica: groenwattel A. elata Benth. English: cedar wattle A. erioloba E. Mey. x A. haematoxylon Willd. (Acacia siraffae Willd.; Acacia giraffae Willd. x Acacia haematox- ‘lon Willd.) English: giraffe acacia, camel thorn German: kameldorn (baum) English: mimosa, giraffe thom, Transvaal camelthorn Southern Africa: kamel doorn, kameel (boom), swartkamel, vaalkameel, kameldorn, kameeldoring (kameelperde = giraffe), kameeldoringboom, omumbonde, grootdoring (Afrikaans); mokala (western Transvaal, northern Cape, Botswana); mogotlho (Kwena dialect, Botswana); mogotho (awana dialect, Ngamiland); mpatsaka, mopatsaka (North Sotho); mosu (Mbukushu); umfola (Ndebele: central and southern Transvaal); omumbonde (Herero); / ganab, // ganas (Nama) Namibia: omumbonde, orukarakaka (pod) (Herero); ‘Mganab/s (Nama/Damara); ghuntu, munty (Geiriku); musu (Kwangali); muntu, untu (Shambyu); ghuthu, muthu (Mbukushu); muhobo, muhoto (Lozi); omuthiya (Ndonga); omuonde (Kwanyama, Kwambi, Mbalantu, Ngandjera, Kwaluudhi, Eunda, Nkolonkadhi); fai, !anab, l'ana, //aala (Bushman) A. erubescens Welw. ex Oliv. (Acacia caffra Willd. vat. pechuelii Kuntze; Acacia dulcis Marloth & Engl.; Acacia kwebensis N.E. Br.; Acacia longipetala Schinz) English: blue thorn Southern Africa: blouhaak, blouhaakdoring, geelhaak, with- aak, katnael, soetdoring, witdoring, wynruitdoring (Afti- kaans); moloto (western Transvaal, northern Cape, Botswana); moremgambo (Mbukushu); omungongomui (Herero); mulondo (Venda) A. extensa Lindley English: wiry wattle A. exuvialis Verdoor (the specific name from the Latin exu- viae, arum (exuo, wi, utum, ere) “what is stripped, taken off”) English: scaly acacia, flaky thorn, lowveld thorn Southern Africa: skilferdoring; risavana (Tsonga)