Species Epithets - D

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Epithet	Meaning	Reference
dalmatica	From Dalmatia (now in Croatia).	Z
damascena	From Damascus.	Z
damasonium	Like Damasonium (a water growing species).
danica	Of Danish origin.	Z
danicus	Of Danish origin.	Z
daphnoides	Resembling Daphne.	Z
dasycarpum	Bearing rough, woolly fruit.	Z
dasyphyllum	With coarse, thick leaves, woolly leaves, or closely leaved.	Z
dasyphyllus	With coarse, thick leaves, woolly leaves, or closely leaved.	Z
daucoides	Resembling Wild Carrot, Daucus Carota.	Z
davidii	Named after a French Jesuit missionary, Pere Armand David.
davurica	From Dahurian Steppes in Siberia.	Z
dealbata	White-washed, covered with white dust or powder.	Z
dealbatum	White-washed, covered with white dust or powder.	Z
debilis	Weak, frail, small.	Z
decapetalus	Having ten petals.	Z
decidua	Soon falling off, having falling leaves.	Z
decipiens	Deceptive, misleading.	Z
declinata	Turned aside, declining, bent downward.	Z
decolor	Discoloured, faded.	Z
decolorans	Discoloured, faded.	Z
decompositum	Double-compounded or divided.	Z
decumbens	Reclining with the summit ascending.	Z
decurrens	Running down, as when leaves are prolonged beyond their insertion and thus hang.	Z
decussatus	Divided crosswise in pairs alternately at right angles.	Z
deflexa	Bent outward (opposite to inflexus).	Z
deflexus	Bent outward (opposite to inflexus).	Z
deliciosus	Of good flavour.	Z
deltoidea	Triangular (petals). (Like Greek letter Δ.)	JS
deltoides	In the form of an equilateral triangle.	Z
demersum	Plunged under, submerged.	Z
densa	Dense, crowded together.	Z
dentata	Toothed like saw teeth.	Z
dentatus	Toothed like saw teeth.	Z
denudata	Stripped, naked, bare.	Z
deodara	(God's tree). Sacred fig-tree, Ficus religiosa.	Z
depauperata	Impoverished as if starved sparsely blooming.	Z
depauperatum	Impoverished as if starved sparsely blooming.	Z
depressa	Pressed down as if flattened lying down flat.	Z
desertorum	Growing in the desert.	Z
diaphana	Permitting the light to shine through.	Z
diaphanum	Permitting the light to shine through.	Z
dichotoma	With forked boughs.	Z
dichotomum	With forked boughs.	Z
didyma	Formed in pairs, divided into two lobes.	Z
didymus	Formed in pairs, divided into two lobes.	Z
difficile	Difficult.	Z
difformis	Of unusual formation.	Z
diffusa	Spread about, wildly or loosely spreading.	Z
diffusum	Spread about, wildly or loosely spreading.	Z
digitata	Fingered, with fingers (of leaves as that of the Horse-Chestnut).	Z
digyna	Having two styles or one deeply cleft style.	Z
dilaceratum	Torn asunder, lacerated.	Z
dilatata	Extended, widened into a blade.	Z
dilatatum	Extended, widened into a blade.	Z
diluta	Pale, light, thin, or thinned down, tapered.	Z
dioica	Having stamens and pistils in separate flowers on different plants.	Z
dioicus	Having stamens and pistils in separate flowers on different plants.	Z
diphylla	With two leaves.	Z
dipsacifolia	With leaves like Dipsacus, Teasel.
disciformis	Disc-like.	Z
discoidea	Quoit-like, with a round thickened lamina.	Z
discolor	Of different colours, colouring.	Z
dissecta	Cut-up, cut into many segments.	Z
dissectum	Cut-up, cut into many segments.	Z
dissimile	Unlike, dissimilar.	Z
distans	Far apart, straggly.	Z
disticha	Having two rows, arranged in two rows.	Z
distichophylla	With leaves in two rows.	Z
distichum	Having two rows, arranged in two rows.	Z
divaricata	Widely spreading apart.	Z
divaricatum	Widely spreading apart.	Z
divaricatus	Widely spreading apart.	Z
diversidens	Unevenly toothed, with differing teeth.	Z
diversifolius	With leaves of more than one kind.	Z
divisa	Parted, interrupted.	Z
divulsa	Torn, pulled asunder.	Z
dolabrata	Axe or hatchet shaped.	Z
dolichostachya	With long spikes.	Z
domestica	Domestic, used in the home.	Z
donax	Reed, distaff cane, great reed, Arundo donax.	Z
douglasiana	Named after David Douglas, Scottish explorer / botanist.
dovrense	From Dovrefjeld, a mountain in Norway.	Z
dracomontanum	From the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa.
dracunculus	Dragon-plant.	Z
dubium	Doubtful. (Possibly doubtfully wild - in other words a garden escape.)
dulcamara	Bitter-sweet. (dulcis, sweet: amarus, bitter)
dulcis	Sweet, or any taste not acrid.	Z
dumetorum	Thicket-like, bushy, growing into a thicket.	Z
dumosus	Bushy, of shrubby aspect.	Z
durandii	Hybrid raised by Durand.
dysenterica	Pertaining to dysentery.	Z