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vernacular name

the common (non-Latin) name for an organism, for example robin is the vernacular name for Erithacus rubecula.

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Vernacular name Botanic name Ail marron Nothoscordum inodorum (Aiton) G.

Marooned plants: vernacular naming practices in the Mascarene Islands

Key words: Host plant, leafhopper, vernacular names

Host Records of Typhlocybinae (Auchenorrhyncha: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) of Zoological Museum, University of Karachi, Pakistan

Table 1: List of Indigenous names for Bowenia, Lepidozamia and Macrozamia cycads of Australia (Bonta and Osborne 2007:18-20) Scientific name Locality Vernacular name Reference Bowenia QLD Eng.

Aboriginal vernacular names of Australian cycads of Macrozamia, Bowenia and Lepidozamia spp.: a response to "Cycads in the vernacular: a compendium of local names"

The plants collected were identified by their vernacular names and their scientific equivalent found and documented.

Plants traditionally used in treating malaria, typhoid fever and piles in the Wa Municipality and Wa East (Funsi) District of the Upper West Region of Ghana

Centuries of relentless persecution had driven the bird, known by its vernacular name as the fork-tailed puttock, to the very brink of extinction.

AS A KITE HIGH; The red kite was once incredibly rare but thankfully now is becoming a much more common sight, Liam Creedon reports

Reptiles were the most mentioned and the vernacular name with the highest number of medicinal uses was the snake, with six treatments identified (Table 2).

Percepcoes e usos de recursos faunisticos por comunidades do entorno de uma unidade de conservacao do nordeste do Brasil

Under the name of each genus follows an English vernacular name, a list of generic synonyms, and entries Number of species worldwide, Number of Western Hemisphere species, Taxonomy, Type species, Distribution, Habitat (with references), Notes, and References.

Erwin, T. L. 2007. A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera) their Classification, Distributions, and Ways of Life

How necessary some accepted vernacular name is--let alone a unique "scientific" label--can be seen from the duplication of names revealed in her pages for some common, or formerly common, birds.

Ode to a clodhopper

Bumble bees species do not have common names, so in the following list of bumble bees most likely to be encountered in the garden, scientific names are provided along with a vernacular name that might be used for these species: B.

Insects in the garden bumble bees

Vernacular name <<lirio>> (in Guayaquil, Ecuador).

A new species of Zephyranthes herb. S.L

Enset clones are denoted by their vernacular name, with their geographic origin in Ethiopia given in parentheses (C = Chena, D = Decha, H = Hadiya, S = Sidama, and W = Wolaita).

AFLP analysis of enset clonal diversity in south and southwestern Ethiopia for conservation. (Crop Breeding, Genetics & Cytology)

Finally, another linguistic connection that is worth investigating is the close correspondence between the western Indian vernacular name gorakh and 'kwora', which is listed as a name for baobab in the Nubian languages of Delami and Umm Brembeita of Eastern Sudan.