Property:Etymology

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Genus Brachythecium and Latin - astrum, incomplete resemblance +

Greek brachys, short, and theke, case, alluding to capsule +

For John Bradbury, 1768–1823, English naturalist, collector for the Liverpool Botanic Garden in the Missouri Territory, 1810–1811 +

Brandegea +

For Townshend Stith Brandegee, 1843 – 1925, California botanist, explorer and collector, civil engineer, topographer +

Brasenia +

for Christoph Brasen, 1738-1774, Moravian missionary and plant collector in Greenland and Labrador +

Brassia +

for William Brass, an eighteenth-century British botanical illustrator and collector +

Brassica +

Latin name for cabbage +

Braunia +

For Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun, 1805 – 1877, Director of the Berlin Botanic Garden +

Braya +

For Franz Gabriel de Bray, 1765–1832, French ambassador to Bavaria, head of Regensberg Botanical Society +

Breynia +

For Jacob Breyne, 1637–1697, and his son Johann Philipp Breyne, 1680–1764, Polish botanists +

Brickellia +

For John Brickell, 1748–1809, Irish-born physician and naturalist who settled in Georgia (not John Brickell, 1710?–1745, Irish naturalist who visited North Carolina ca. 1729–1731 and published on the natural history of North Carolina in 1737) +

Brickelliastrum +

Generic name Brickellia and Latin - astrum, indicating inferiority or an incomplete resemblance +

Brintonia +

For Jeremiah Bernard Brinton, 1835–1894, of Philadelphia +

Brodiaea +

for James Brodie, 1744–1824, Scottish cryptogamic botanist +

Brosimum +

Greek brosimos, edible +

Brothera +

For Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus, 1849–1929, Finnish bryologist +

Brotherella +

For Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus, 1849 – 1929, Finnish bryologist +

Broussonetia +

for Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (1761-1807), French biologist at Montpellier +

Bruchia +

For Philipp Bruch, 1781–1847, German pharmacist and bryologist +

Brunnichia +

for Morten Thrane Brunnich, 1737–1827, eighteenth-century Danish naturalist +

Bryhnia +

For Nils Bryhn, 1854 – 1916, Norwegian bryologist +

Bryoandersonia +

Greek, bryon, moss, and Lewis Edward Anderson, 1912 – 2007 American bryologist +

Bryobrittonia +

Greek bryon, moss, and for Elizabeth G. Knight Britton, 1858–1934, American botanist +

Bryocrumia +

For Howard Alvin Crum, 1922–2002, American bryologist +

Bryoerythrophyllum +

Greek bryon, moss, erythros, red, and phyllon, leaf +

Bryolawtonia +

For Elva Lawton, 1896 – 1993 American bryologist +

Bryonia +

Greek bruein, to burgeon or sprout, alluding to rapid growth of herbaceous stems produced annually from large perennial roots +

Bryophyllum +

Greek bryo, swell, and phyllon, leaf +

Bryoxiphium +

Greek bryon, moss, and xiphium, sword, alluding to plant form +

Bryum +

Greek bryon, moss +

Buchnera +

For Andreas Elias von Büchner, 1701–1769, physician +

Buckiella +

For William Russel Buck, b. 1950, American bryologist, and Latin - ella, diminutive +

Bucklandiella +

From Monte Buckland, mountain of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, name commemorating William Buckland, 1784–1856, geologist, canon of Christ Church, Oxford, dean of Westminster from 1845, and Latin -ella, diminuntive +

Buckleya +

For Samuel Botsford Buckley, 1809–1884, American botanist +

Buddleja +

For Adam Buddle, 1660–1715, English botanist, vicar of Farmbridge +

Bulbophyllum +

Greek bolbos, bulb, and phyllon, leaf, referring to its leafy pseudobulb +

Bulbostylis +

Latin bulbus, bulb, and stylus, style +

Bunias +

Greek and Latin bunias, a kind of common mustard or turnip +

Burmannia +

For Johannes Burman, 1707–1779, Dutch botanist +

Butomus +

Greek butomos/butomon, marsh plant +, from Greek bous, cow, and temno, to cut +, referring to sharp leaves, known or believed to cut mouths of cattle +

Buxbaumia +

For J. C. Buxbaum, 1693–1730, its discoverer +

Buxus +

buxus +, from Greek pyxos (or puxos), name for box tree, of uncertain origin but supposedly from pyknos, dense, solid, alluding to excellent wood +

Byrsonima +

Greek byrsa, leather, alluding to use of bark of some species in tanning +, meaning of suffix obscure +

C

Cabomba +

probably an aboriginal name +

Cacaliopsis +

Genus name Cacalia and Greek - opsis, like +

Cakile +

Arabic name qaqulleh +

Calandrinia +

For J. L. Calandrini, 1703–1758, Swiss botanist +

Calendula +

Latin calends, first day of the month, and -ula, tendency +, perhaps meaning “through the months” and alluding to ± year-round flowering +

Calepina +

Greek chalepaino, term used by Theophrastus probably in connection with weedy plants +, some authors believe it derived from Arabic Haleb (erroneously rendered Chaleb by some), name for the Syrian city Aleppo, but highly unlikely since Adanson based it on Bauhin’s Myagrum monospermum minus, collected in southern France +

Calla +

a plant name used by Pliny, perhaps from Greek kallos, beauty +

Callaeum +

Greek kallaion, cockscomb, alluding to lobed or corrugated outgrowths on samara between lateral and dorsal wings in the type species, C. nicaraguense +

Callicladium +

Greek kallos, beauty, and klados, branch or shoot, alluding to habit +

Callicostella +

Latin callum, hardened or thick, costa, rib, and -ella, diminutive, alluding to strong costae +

Calliergon +

Greek kallos, beauty, and ergon, work, alluding to appearance +

Calliergonella +

Genus Calliergon and Latin -ella, diminutive +

Callirhoë +

Derivation uncertain +, possibly Greek kallos, beautiful, and rhoias, corn poppy, alluding to resemblance +

Callisia +

Greek kallos, beauty, referring to the attractive leaves +

Callitriche +

Greek kallos, beautiful, and trichos, hair, presumably alluding to fine leaves of some growth forms +

Callitris +

Greek callos, beautiful, and treis, three, referring to the beauty of the plants and the three-whorled leaves and cone scales +

Calluna +

Greek kallyno, to brush, sweep, or cleanse, alluding to use as brooms +

Calocedrus +

Greek callos, beautiful, and kedros, cedar +

Calochortus +

Greek kalos, beautiful, and chortos, grass +

Calophyllum +

Greek kalos, beautiful, and phyllon, leaf +

Calopogon +

Greek kalos, beautiful, and pogon, beard, alluding to hairlike protuberances on lamellae +

Caltha +

Greek name for some yellow-flowered plants +

Calycadenia +

Greek calyx, cup, and aden, gland, alluding to tack-glands of peduncular bracts and/or phyllaries +

Calycanthus +

Greek kályx, covering, cup, and anthos, flower +

Calycocarpum +

Greek, calyx, cup, and carpos, fruit +

Calycoseris +

Greek kalyx, cup, and seris, chicory, alluding to shallow cups on apices of cypselae +

Calydorea +

Greek caly, sheathed or covered, and dory, spear, most likely alluding to the spear-shaped buds enclosed until anthesis within the rhipidial spathes +

Calymperes +

Greek kalymma, covering, and peiro, pierce, alluding to fissured calyptra +

Calypso +

Greek kalypso, a figure in Homer’s Odyssey +

Calyptocarpus +

Greek kalypto, covered or hidden, and karpos, fruit +

Calyptranthes +

Greek kalyptra, cap or cover, and anthos, flower, alluding to calyx covering stamens in flower bud +

Camassia +

Shoshone name camas or quamash +

Camelina +

Greek chamai, dwarf or on the ground, and linon, flax, alluding to suppressing influence on growth of flax +

Camissonia +

For Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso, 1781–1838, French-born German botanist +

Camissoniopsis +

Genus Camissonia and Greek -opsis, resemblance +

Campyliadelphus +

Genus Campylium and Greek adelphos, brother, alluding to similarity +

Campylium +

Greek campylos, curved, alluding to reflexed leaves +

Campylocentrum +

Greek kampylos, crooked, and kentros, spur, alluding to the floral lip with a long, slender, sharply curved spur +

Campyloneurum +

Greek kampylos, curved, and neuron, nerve, in reference to the venation +

Campylophyllum +

Greek kampylos, bent, and phyllon, leaf, alluding to recurved leaves +

Campylopodiella +

Genus Campylopus and Latin -ella, diminutive +

Campylopus +

Greek campylos, curved, and pous, foot, alluding to curved seta +

Campylostelium +

Greek kampylos, bent, and stele, pillar, alluding to curved seta +

Canadanthus +

Canada and Greek anthos, flower, alluding to mainly Canadian distribution +

Canbya +

for William M. Canby, 1831-1904, Delaware botanist +

Canella +

ella, diminutive, because of the tightly rolled bark when dried +

Canna +

Greek kanna, reedlike plant +

Cannabis +

Greek kannabis, hemp, said to come from Arabic kinnab or Persian kannab +

Canotia +

Spanish name in Mexico +

Caperonia +

For Natalis (Noël) Caperon or Capperon, d. 1572, apothecary of Orleans +

Capraria +

Latin capri, goat, and -arius, pertaining to, alluding to consumption by goats +

Capsella +

Latin capsa, box or case, alluding to fruit resembling medieval wallet or purse +

Cardamine +

Greek kardamon, name for a cress +

Cardionema +

Greek kardio, heart, and nema, thread, alluding to the obcordate anthers and slender filaments +

Carduus +

From ancient name of thistlelike plant +

Carica +

Alluding to imagined resemblance of leaves or fruits to those of a fig, Ficus carica, erroneously thought to be from Caria in southwestern Asia Minor +

Carlina +

For Charles V, 1500–1558, Holy Roman Emperor +

Carlquistia +

For Sherwin Carlquist, b. 1930, Californian botanist +

Carminatia +

For Bassiani Carminati, eighteenth-century Italian author of book on hygiene, therapeutics, and materia medica +

Carnegiea +

For Andrew Carnegie, 1835–1919, Scottish-born American philanthropist and patron for systematic studies of cacti +

Carpenteria +

For William Marbury Carpenter, 1811–1848, Louisiana physician and botanist +

Carphephorus +

Greek karphos, chaff, and phoros, bearing, alluding to receptacular paleae +

Carphochaete +

Greek karphos, chaff, and chaite, long bristle +

Carpinus +

Latin carpinus, hornbeam, possibly from carpentum, a Roman horse-drawn vehicle with wheels made from its hard wood +

Carpobrotus +

Greek karpos, fruit, and brota, edible things +

Carrichtera +

For Bartholomaeus Carrichter, sixteenth-century herbalist, alchemist, and physician to Emperor Maximilian II +

Carsonia +

For Carson Desert of Nevada +

Carthamus +

Arabic qartam, safflower +

Carya +

Greek káryon, nut, kernel +

Caryota +

Greek caryon, nut +

Cascadia +

For the Cascade Mountains of western North America +

Cassiope +

Greek mythological Cassiope, wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda +

Cassytha +

Greek kasytas, name for Cuscuta +

Castanea +

Classical Latin, from Greek kastanaion karuon, nut from Castania, probably referring either to Kastanaia in Pontus or Castana in Thessaly +

Castilleja +

For Domingo Castillejo, 1744–1793, Spanish botanist +

Casuarina +

Neo-Latin casuarius, cassowary, from resemblance of drooping branchlets to feathers of the cassowary +

Catoscopium +

Greek kata, down, and skopeo, look, alluding to orientation of capsule mouth +

Caulanthus +

Greek kaulos, stem, and anthos, flower, alluding to insertion of flowers along stem +

Caulophyllum +

Greek caulos, stem, and phyllos, leaf +

Causonis +

Derivation unknown +, perhaps Latin causa, reason, and onus, necessity, alluding to segregation from Cissus +

Cayaponia +

Derivation uncertain, perhaps from Caiapó, river or native tribe of Amazonian Brazil +

Ceanothus +

Greek keanothus, name used by Dioscorides for some spiny plant +

Celastrus +

Greek kelastros, ancient name for holly, Ilex aquifolium +

Celosia +

Greek keleos, burning, alluding to color and/or appearance of the inflorescence of C. cristata +

Celtis +

Classical Latin, Pliny's name for Celtis australis Linnaeus, the "lotus" of the ancient world +

Centaurea +

Greek kentaurieon, ancient plant name associated with Chiron, a centaur famous for knowledge of medicinal plants +

Centratherum +

Latin centrum, center, and atherum, prickle or awn, perhaps alluding to spine-tipped middle phyllaries of original species +

Centromadia +

Latin centron, prickle, and generic name Madia +

Centrostegia +

Greek kentron, spur and stegion, roof, alluding to arched saccate spurs at base of involucre +

Cephalanthera +

Greek kephale, head, and anthera, anther +

Cerastium +

Greek, ceras, horn, alluding to shape of capsule +

Ceratiola +

Greek keration, little horn, alluding to style branches +

Ceratodon +

Greek keratos, horn, and odon, tooth, alluding to peristome teeth forked like goat horns +

Ceratophyllum +

Greek ceratos, horn, and phyllon, leaf +

Ceratopteris +

Greek cerato, horned, and pteris, fern, referring to the antlerlike fertile leaf +

Ceratotheca +

Greek keratos, horned, and theke, case, alluding to barbed fruit +

Cercocarpus +

Greek kerkos, tail, and karpos, fruit +

Cevallia +

For Pedro Cevallos, 1760–1840, Spanish statesman and diplomat +

Chaenactis +

Greek chaino, to gape, and aktis, ray, alluding to enlarged peripheral corollas of type species +

Chaenomeles +

Greek chaino, open, and melon, apple, alluding to mistakenly presumed splitting of fruit +

Chaenorhinum +

Greek chaino, to gape, and rhis, snout, alluding to open throat of corolla as compared to Antirrhinum and Linaria +

Chaetadelpha +

Greek chaite, long hair, bristles, and adelphe, sister, alluding to adnation of awns and bristles of pappi +

Chaetopappa +

Greek chaite, long hair, and pappos, pappus +

Chamaebatia +

Greek chamai, low, and batos, bramble, alluding to habit +

Chamaebatiaria +

Genus Chamaebatia and Latin - aria, connection, alluding to resemblance +

Chamaechaenactis +

Greek, chamae -, creeping, low, on the ground, and generic name Chaenactis +

Chamaecyparis +

Greek chamai, on the ground, or dwarf, and cyparissos, cypress +

Chamaedaphne +

Greek chamai, dwarf, and daphne, laurel, alluding to low habit and persistent leaves +

Chamaedorea +

Greek chamai, on the ground, and dorea, gift, in reference to small, low-growing palms of great beauty +

Chamaelirium +

Greek chamae, on the ground, and lirion, white lily +

Chamaemelum +

Greek chamae- , on the ground, lowly, creeping, and melon, orchard, alluding to common habitat +

Chamaenerion +

Greek chamae-, on the ground or dwarf, and nērion, oleander, alluding to resemblance of flower color and foliage +

Chamaerhodos +

Greek chamai, dwarf, and rhodon, rose, alluding to appearance of plants +

Chamelaucium +

Derivation uncertain +, possibly Greek chamai, dwarf, and lauchis, poplar, alluding to flower +, or kamelaukion, headdress of medieval Popes, alluding to form of calyptra +

Chaptalia +

For J. A. C. Chaptal, 1756–1831, who invented the wine-making process called chaptalization +

Chasmanthe +

Greek chasme, gap, and anthos, flower, alluding to the shape of the flower +

Cheilanthes +

Greek cheilos, margin, and anthus, flower, referring to the marginal sporangia +

Cheiroglossa +

Greek cheir, hand, and glossa, tongue +, in reference to the palmately lobed trophophores and the linear sporophores +

Chelidonium +

Greek cheilidon, swallow (bird), perhaps from lore reported by Aristotle and others that mother swallows bathe eyes of their young with the sap +

Chelone +

Greek chelon, tortoise, alluding to fancied resemblance between flower back and tortoise back +

Chenia +

For Chen Pan Chieh, 1907–1970, Chinese bryologist +

Chenopodium +

Greek chen, goose, and pous, foot, in reference to the shape of the leaf +

Chimaphila +

Greek cheima, winter, and philia, love, alluding to evergreen habit +

Chionodoxa +

Greek chion, snow, and doxa, glory or repute +

Chionophila +

Greek chion, snow, and philios, loving, alluding to high-elevation habitats +

Chloracantha +

Greek chloros, green, and akantha, thorn +

Chlorocrambe +

Greek chlor -, green, and Crambe, a genus of Brassicaceae +

Chlorogalum +

Greek chloros, green, and gala, milk, alluding to the lather-producing juice of the bulbs +

Chloropyron +

Greek chloros, green or yellow-green, and pyros, fire, hence red or yellow, alluding to yellowish green plants +

Chondrilla +

Name used by Dioscorides for plant that exudes milky juice or gum +

Chorisiva +

Greek choris -, separate, and Iva, a related genus +, allusion recondite, perhaps “separate from Iva ” or to “scattered” arrangement of heads +

Chorispora +

Greek choris, asunder or separate, and spora, seed, alluding to fruit breaking at constrictions into one-seeded segments +

Chorizanthe +

Greek chorizo, to divide, and anthos, flower, alluding to tepals +

Chromolaena +

Greek chroma, color, and laina, cloak, evidently alluding to the colored phyllaries of some species, including the type +

Chrysactinia +

Greek chrysos, gold, and actinos, ray +

Chrysanthemoides +

Generic name Chrysanthemum and Latin -oides, resembling +

Chryso-hypnum +

Greek chryseos, golden, and genus Hypnum +

Chrysobalanus +

Greek chrysos, golden, and balanos, acorn or fruit, alluding to yellow fruits of some individuals of C. icaco +

Chrysogonum +

Greek chrysos, gold, and gonos, seed, apparently alluding to the bright yellow, hemispheric capitula or to the fertile cypselae from the cypsela-complexes of the ray florets +

Chrysolepis +

Greek chrysos, gold, and lepis, scale, referring to yellow glands on various organs of the plant +

Chrysoma +

Greek chrysos, gold, and - ome, having the condition of +, alluding to predominantly yellow-gold heads and corymbs +

Chrysophyllum +

Greek chrysos, gold, and phyllon, leaf +

Chrysopsis +

Greek chrysos, gold, and opsis, appearance or likeness, alluding to yellow corollas +

Chrysosplenium +

Greek chrysos, gold, and splenos, spleen, alluding to color of flowers and to alleged medical properties +

Chrysothamnus +

Greek chryseos, golden, and thamnos, bush +

Chylismia +

Greek chylos, juice or succulence, and -isma, condition, alluding to fleshy leaves of C. scapoidea, the type species +

Chylismiella +

Genus Chylismia and Latin -ella, diminutive, alluding to flower size +

Cichorium +

Ancient Arabic name +

Cienfuegosia +

For Bernardo Cienfuegos, ca. 1580 – ca. 1640, Spanish botanist +

Cimicifuga +

Latin cimex, bug, and fugare, to drive away +

Cinclidium +

Greek kinklis, latticed gate, and eidos, shape or form, alluding to endostome +

Cinnamomum +

Greek kinnamomon, cinnamon +

Circaea +

Greek kirkaia, a poetic name, alluding to mythical enchantress Circe’s usage of an unknown plant as a charm +

Cirriphyllum +

Latin cirrus, curl, and Greek phyllon, leaf, alluding to appearance +

Cirsium +

Greek kirsion, thistle +

Cissus +

Greek kissos, ivy +

Cistanthe +

generic name Cistus (rockrose) and Greek anthos, flower, in reference to similarity of the flowers +

Cistus +

Ancient Greek name for plants of the genus +

Citrullus +

Generic name Citrus and Latin - ellus, diminutive, alluding to supposed resemblance of fruits +

Cladanthus +

Derivation not given +, possibly Greek klados, branch, and anthos, flower, alluding to branching of stems at bases of sessile heads in original species +

Cladium +

Greek clados, branch, referring to the highly branched inflorescences +

Claopodium +

Greek klao, break, and podion, little foot, apparently alluding to fragile setae +

Clappia +

For “Dr. Asahel Clapp, of New Albany, Indiana, one of the most zealous botanists of our Western States….” Quoted from protologue. +

Clarkia +

For Captain William Clark, 1770–1838, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition +

Clasmatodon +

Greek klasma, fragment, and odon, tooth, alluding to irregularly bifid endostome +

Claytonia +

for John Clayton, 1686–1773, physician and plant collector in Virginia +

Cleistes +

Greek kleistos, closed, alluding to lip and petals that diverge only near apex, forming tube for most of their length, the flower thus appearing closed +

Cleistocarpidium +

Greek kleistos, unopened, and karpos, fruit, alluding to indehiscent capsule without operculum +

Clematis +

Greek clema, plant shoot, ancient name of a vine +

Cleome +

Origin obscure, perhaps from Greek kleos, glory, or after Kleo, Greek muse of history, first used by Priscian, fourteenth-century medical writer +

Cleomella +

Generic name Cleome, and Latin -ella, dimunitive +

Cleoserrata +

Genus Cleome and serrata, serrate, alluding to leaflet margins +

Clethra +

Greek klethra, alder, alluding to resemblance of leaves of certain species +

Cliftonia +

For William Clifton, vital dates unknown, first attorney general of Georgia (1754–1764), later Chief Justice of West Florida +

Climacium +

Greek klimakion, small stair or ladder, alluding to broad perforations of endostome segments united by transverse tissue resembling rungs of a ladder +

Clintonia +

for De Witt Clinton (1769–1828), statesman and several-times governor of New York +

Clusia +

For Charles l’Écluse, 1525 – 1609, Flemish botanist +

Cnidoscolus +

Greek cnide, nettle, and skolos, thorn, alluding to stinging hairs +

Coccinia +

Latin coccineus, scarlet, alluding to mature fruit of C. grandis +

Coccoloba +

Greek, coccos, seed or berry, and lobos, capsule or pod, alluding to fleshy hypanthium surrounding fruit +

Coccothrinax +

Greek coccos, berry, and thrinax, trident or winnowing fork +

Cocculus +

diminutive of Latin coccum, berry +

Cochlearia +

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

Cocos +

derivation of name uncertain +

Codriophorus +

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

Coeloglossum +

Greek koilos, hollow, and glossa, tongue +

Coelophragmus +

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

Coincya +

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

Coleogyne +

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

Collinsia +

For Zaccheus Collins, 1764–1831, Philadelphia botanist +

Colocasia +

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

Colubrina +

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

Columbiadoria +

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

Comandra +

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

Comarostaphylis +

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

Comarum +

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

Combretum +

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

Commelina +

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

Commicarpus +

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

Comptonia +

for Henry Compton, amateur horticulturist and Bishop of London +

Conardia +

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

Condalia +

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

Conicosia +

Greek konikos, cone-shaped, in reference to the capsule +

Conimitella +

Latin conus, cone, and genus Mitella, alluding to hypanthium shape and general resemblance +

Conocarpus +

Greek konos, cone, and karpos, fruit, alluding to shape of densely clustered fruits +

Conoclinium +

Greek konos, cone, and kline, bed, alluding to conic receptacles +

Conopholis +

Greek conos, cone, and pholis, scale, alluding to conelike inflorescences +