Gardenia
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
New Latin, named by botanist Job Bicknell Ellis (1829-1905) after Scottish physician and botanist, living in South Carolina, Alexander Garden (1730-1791).[1][2] + -ia
Proper noun edit
Gardenia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Rubiaceae – the gardenias, native to Africa and southern and eastern Asia.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Gentianales - order; Rubiaceae - family; Ixoroideae - subfamily; Gardenieae - tribe
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Gardenia jasminoides (Cape jasmine) - type species; for other species see
Gardenia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
References edit
Gardenia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Gardenia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Gardenia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Gardenia at Plants of the World Online
- Gardenia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Gardenia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Gardenia at Encyclopedia of Life
- Gardenia at USDA Plants database
- ^ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
- ^ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.
English edit
Proper noun edit
Gardenia
- A village in Belize District, Belize.