Talk:List of plant genus names with etymologies (L–P)

Notes

• I'm aware that the "Meaning or derivation" column is too sparse for some tastes, but I want to string all the pages of this four-part list together to meet the Good Topic requirement for an overview page, so I need to keep things sparse to keep the combined page within Mediawiki's page limits. There's a lot of room for expansion here in future articles. - Dank (push to talk) 18:42, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
• Although "genus names" looks redundant at first glance, many of the genera do in fact have multiple names (such as Rosa and rose).
• The table (L to P) has 637 rows. - Dank (push to talk) 04:27, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
• This reference was added to Parodia line: <ref>Carlos Spegazzini. Breves Notas Cactológicas. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina. Volume 96. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49082499]</ref> I don't disagree with the conclusion, but that ref will cause my WP:FLC source review to fail for various reasons, so I'll substitute a source that will pass FLC. - Dank (push to talk) 01:14, 20 October 2020 (UTC) Now removed. - Dank (push to talk) 15:11, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
• For fans of List of descriptive plant epithets (A–H) and List of descriptive plant epithets (I–Z) (if there are any), please lower your expectations regarding the images here. With those articles, we tried to find attractive, representative, and illustrative images when possible. With this list, there are fewer rows to choose from that have "meanings". So, many images are utilitarian rather than attractive, and some do a better job of illustrating the meaning than of representing the genus ... File:Lampranthus glaucoides 3.jpg, for example. - Dank (push to talk) 20:27, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
• I've just pluralized many of the plant parts (flower -> flowers, stamen -> stamens) because almost all flowering plants have more than one of these parts. That's obvious to botanists, but Wikipedia is meant for a wide readership. Also, some of these words mean different things when singular than when plural ... again, that doesn't pose any problem for botanists, they'll immediately get what's meant, but precision can provide useful reading cues for people who need the cues. - Dank (push to talk) 21:02, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
• In this edit, I reverted some of the pluralizing edits I just referred to in the previous note. There were a few tough judgment calls here. The two guiding principles are: 1. The Latin and Greek words are generally singular or intended as singular, but many of them are understood by botanists to have a plural sense, but 2. Most of our readers are not botanists. Whenever I think there's a chance that a singular word might be misinterpreted, I pluralize it for clarity. If clarity isn't an issue, then staying true to the Greek and Latin words (and to the sources) takes precedence. - Dank (push to talk) 21:58, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
• In this edit, I removed the etymology from one row where the plant name already existed in Classical Latin. I'm working on putting some classical etymologies in a different series of lists. - Dank (push to talk) 21:24, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
• The {{ill}} link for Olearius is Johann Gottfried Olearius. - Dank (push to talk) 14:31, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Round Two

• See Talk:List of plant genus names (A–C)#Round Two. - Dank (push to talk) 19:48, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
• Now 567 rows. - Dank (push to talk) 15:40, 11 June 2021 (UTC)