Dinesh ji, There is a very reliable authentic book named "Botanical Latin" by William T. Stearn (third revised edition, 1983). I have a personal PDF of the same (22 mb) which can not be shared via email. Here I get the following meaning which has to be followed: Regards, Tapas.
*palaris*: relating to stakes, stake-like; *radix palaris, *tap-root. On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > On much of searching, I think the nearest meanings of *palum* in context > of the genus name are: *stake* or *pale*. > References: Worldnews <http://my.wn.com/search/acanthaceae?p=0&t=details> > (search for the word *palum* on the webpage) and the Wiktionary > <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palus> page of *palus*. > > Wooden stakes / pales (palings) are normally seen used for building fences. > > I am assuming that the dehisced segments of persistent calyx seen in > *Erythropalum > scandens* fruit allude to stakes. I hope so. Please validate. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear friends, >> >> I searched the net and some books available with me, to find meaning of >> *Erythropalum*. >> While Greek *erytho* is well known to be mean "red", could not find what >> *palum* in context of the genus name stands for. >> *I have a feeling that it may be connected to red dehisced fruit.* >> >> *Palus*, in Latin would be plural form of *palum*. In Wiktionary, *palus* >> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palus> seems to have range of meanings: >> swamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen, pool ... stake, prop, post. >> >> Please help. >> >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
