Property:Etymology

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Latin cochlear, spoon, alluding to leaf shape of some species +

derivation of name uncertain +

Distorted Greek kodon, bell, and phoras, bearing, alluding to capsules with bell-shaped calyptrae +

Greek koilos, hollow, and glossa, tongue +

Greek kilos (Latin coelus), hollow, and phragmos, partition, alluding to deep pits on sides of fruit septum where seeds are located +

For Auguste Henri Cornut de Coincy, 1837–1903, Spanish botanist, discoverer of first species described +

Greek koleos, sheath, and gyne, female, alluding to thin staminal tubelike sheath surrounding ovary and style +

For Zaccheus Collins, 1764–1831, Philadelphia botanist +

classical Greek name derived from an old Middle Eastern name colcas or culcas +

Latin coluber, racer snake, perhaps alluding to twisting of deep furrows on stems of some species +

Columbia (River), and doria, an early name for goldenrods +

Greek kome, hair, and andros, male, alluding to petal hairs that attach to anthers +

Greek komaros, arbutus, and staphyle, cluster of grapes, alluding to resemblance of fruit clusters to those of Arbutus unedo +

Greek komaros, strawberry-tree (Arbutus unedo Linnaeus), alluding to similarity of fruit +

Latin, derived from a name applied by Pliny the Elder to a climbing plant of uncertain identity +

for the two Dutch botanists Jan and Kaspar Commelijn, because of the two showy petals +

Greek kommi, gum, and carpos, fruit, in reference to gummy-glandular fruit +

for Henry Compton, amateur horticulturist and Bishop of London +

For Henry Shoemaker Conard, 1874–1971, bryologist of Grinnell College, Iowa +

For Antonio Condal, 1745–1804, Spanish physician who accompanied Peter Loefling on a journey up the Orinoco River +