Cosmos stands for UNIVERSE and sometimes also means well organised. May be this is referring to well organised structure of stigma, in this case a GYNOSTEGIUM. The opposite of cosmos is chaos, so you can make out the meaning. Pankaj
2010/11/2 Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>: > Asclepiadaceae (milkweed family) ~ Apocynaceae » Cosmostigma racemosum > Synonym: Asclepias racemosa > > > kos-moh-STIG-muh -- from the Greek kosmos (beauty) and stigma (stigma) > ray-see-MO-sum -- having racemes (a type of flower cluster) > > > commonly known as: green milkweed creeper • Malayalam: വട്ടു വല്ലീ vattu > valli • Marathi: जटी jati > > > Endemic to: Western Ghats of India > > > Attached views from Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary > ... for more views: > http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=91314344%40N00&q=Cosmostigmaracemosum&m=tags -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
