Diapensia
See also: diapensia
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Diapensia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Diapensiaceae – of alpine and arctic distribution.
Hypernyms edit
- (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 edit
- (genus): Diapensia lapponica - type species; Diapensia himalaica, Diapensia purpurea, Diapensia wardii - other species
References edit
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), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 205b–206a
