Botanic Scientific Terms

NG

ngamicus - GSN. L, From lake Ngami, Botswana. See Pterodiscus n. - 16, 378d

ngoyanus – GSN. Named after Ngoye Forest. See Encephalartos n. – 18,500

ngraecum - Lindley’s separation of certain species from ngraecum to form a distinct tribe or ‘private’ branch. See Oeceoclades - 28, 325
NI

nicandra - CSN. Named after Nikander of Colophon, 2^nd century Greek physician and botanist. See genus Nicandra.- 16, 362d; 18,478

nicolai – CGN. After Emperor Nicholas of Russia. Strelitzia n. - 3, 191

nicotina - CSN. Jean Nicot. - 12, 300; 13, 1219

nidor – DSN. L. Strong smell. See Nidorella. - 16, 452d

nidorella - DSN. L. From nidor, a strong smell, which these plants have. - 16, 452d

nigelia - DSN. From niger, black which refers to the seeds. - 12, 301; 13, 1220

nigellifolia - DGN. Resembles Nigella leaves. See Cotula n. – 18,218

niger - DSN. L. Black. See genus Nigelia or species nigropedata. - 1, 12; 10, 339; 12, 301; 12,304; 13,1220, 1223

nigrescens - DSN. L. Turning black. See Corycium n., Acacia n. - 1, 92, 142; 3, 70; 16, 114e

nigricans - DSN. Black. See Stachys n. – 18,182

nigropedata - DSN. From niger, black and pedatus, footed; an allusion to the black or dark base of the spikelets in Brachiaria n. - 1, 12

nigrum - DSN. L. Blackish. In Solanum n. the fruits are blackish. - 16, 362c

nilotica - GSN. L. From the Nile. In Ceropegia n. refers to area where the type specimen was collected. See Ansellia n., Ceropegia n. - 1, 96; 5, pl 127; 18,174

nipponicus - GSN. Nippon (Japan). - 12, 302; 13, 1221

nitens - DSN. L. Polished, shiny. Describes the involucral bracts of Helichrysum n, Rhynchosia n. - 5,pl.189; 16, 178g; 18,272

nitida - DSN. Shining. See Lonlcera n. 10, 216, 339

nitidum - DSN. Glossy,shining. See Schizoglossum n. – 18,168

nitidus – DSN. Glossy, shining. See Pycreus n. – 18,562

nitor – DSN. Strong smell. See genus Nidorella.- 18,310

nivalis - DSN. Of the snows. Snow-white. - 10, 339; 12, 304; 13, 1223

nivenia - CSN. James Niven. - 12, 299

NO

nobilis - DSN. L. Notable. Noble. See Strapelia n., Lantana n. - 1, 208; 10, 204, 339

nodiflora – DSN. L. Flowering at the nodes, conelike flowers. See Widdrington n., Phyla n. - 16,20c; 18,424

nodulosa - DSN. L. With small nodes. See Crassula capitella subsp. N. - 1, 116

non- - Not. E.g. Nonscriptus, not written upon, without markings. - 14, 303

nothofagus - DGN. From nothos, false and fagus, beech, a false beech - 4, 98; 10, 235

nohopanax - DGN. From nothos, false or spurious and panax, Panax, and it means it is not a true Panax. - 10, 236

nomos - G. m. Pasture. - 14, 276

northiae - CSN. Marianne North. See Kniphofia n. - 18,30

noth- - G. notho-. In compounds, false-, spurious, used in coining generic names indicating close but incomplete agreement. - 14, 469

notho- - G. noth-. In compounds, false-, spurious, used in coining generic names indicating close but incomplete agreement. - 14, 469

nothos - G. Bastard, base-born. False or spurious. See genus Nothofagus, Nothopanax, Nothosscordum - 4,98; 10, 235, 236; 14, 276; 18,92

nothosscordum - DGN. Fron nothos, bastard and skordon,garlic. - 18,92

nothus - G. False, not genuine, mongrel. - 14, 469

noto Broom. See genus Notospartum. - 10, 236

nôto- - G. In compounds, southern, south-. - 14, 469

nõto- - G. In compounds, dorsal, back-, on the back. - 14, 469

noton - G. n. The back. See Notylia - 14, 276; 28, 318

notos - G. m. South-wind, south or south-west quarter. OR. The back. - 14, 276, 277

notospartum - DSN. From notos, south and spartium,broom. - 10, 236

notylia - DSN. G. From noton black and tylon a hump, referring to the recurved apical part of the column. - 28,318

nouchali - DSN. Probably from a wrongly interpreted English plant name. See Nymphaea n. var caerulea - 16,138a; 18,460

novae-angliae - GSN. New-England. - 13, 1221

novi-belgi - GSN. New Belgium, the name sometimes applied to the New Netherlands, now New York. - 13,1221

NU

nubia - Cloud. See nubigena. - 1, 48

nubigena - DSN. L. Cloud-born. See Aloe n. - 1, 48; 16, 48f

nudicaulis - DSN. Naked-stemmed. See Crassula n. - 13, 1223; 18,144

nudifolium – DSN. Hairless leaves. See Helichrysum n. – 18,314

nunda - DSN. L. Devoid of leaves. See Lobelia n. - 1, 264

nundicaulis - DSN. Naked-stemmed. -12, 304

nutans - DSN. L. Nodding. Walleria n., Cyrtanthus n. - 1, 68; 16, 78a; 18,232

nuxia - Origin uncertain. - 1, 196; 16, 298a,b