Clivia
See also: clivia
Translingual
Etymology
(plant): New Latin, Clive (“a surname”) + -ia, named by botanist John Lindley (1799-1865) after Charlotte Florentina Clive (died 1866)[1][2]
(wasp): From Latin clivus (“rise, slope”), referring to the strongly convex scutellum. Named and described in 2005 by Yan-Zhou Zhang and Da-Wei Huang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[3].
Proper noun
Clivia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Amaryllidaceae – the clivias or kaffir lilies.
- A taxonomic genus within the family Encyrtidae – a monotypic taxon, containing only Clivia antoninae, a parasitoid chalcid wasp of China.
Hypernyms
- (genus of plant): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, monocots - clades; Asparagales - order; Amaryllidaceae - family
References
- plant
- Clivia at USDA Plants database
- Clivia on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Clivia at Encyclopedia of Life
- Clivia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Clivia at The Plant List
- chalcid wasp
- Clivia at the Catalogue of Life
- Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
- Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.
- Zhang, Y.Z.; Huang, D.W. (2005) A new genus and a new species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from China., JOURBOOK: Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica VOLUME: 30(1) PAGES: 150-154
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