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  • adjective Anderson (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Anderson's ..."

Etymologies

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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Anderson.

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Examples

  • Examples of endemic mosses to the park include Stereodontopsis flagellifera, Coryphopteria andersonii, Hypnodendron beccarii and H. vitiense.

    Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia 2008

  • Among the plants, we can mention Romorinoa girolae (chica), Gomprhena colosacana var. andersonii from the Sierra de las Quijadas National Park and species with limited distribution in Argentina like verdolaga (Halophytum ameghinoi), a fleshy grass that grows in bogs.

    Argentine Monte 2007

  • By the south corner, where the campoodie stood, is a single shrub of "hoopee" (Lycium andersonii), maintaining itself hardly among alien shrubs, and near by, three low rakish trees of hackberry, so far from home that no prying of mine has been able to find another in any canon east or west.

    The Land of Little Rain 1903

  • (Lycium andersonii), maintaining itself hardly among alien shrubs, and near by, three low rakish trees of hackberry, so far from home that no prying of mine has been able to find another in any canon east or west.

    The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

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