Common Names of Plants Related to APG II Names

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COMMON NAMES OF PLANTS RELATED TO APG II NAMES

The notes below concern the designation in the Nuu language corresponding to each of a wide selection of common English names of plants.  The Nuu language is an invented language displayed on this website.  Anyone not interested in this language may simply ignore the column on the far right side of the table.  For purposes of relating common names to names assigned by APG II, the table is self-explanatory.

All the classifications in the table below are based on articles from www.wikipedia.org.  For verification or further information, consult that website.

For the purposes of this paragraph, any digraph in which the second element is J, X or H, as NJ, NX or NH is considered a single consonant.  If a family has the same typical plant as an order, the initial consonant is merely doubled: BB- = Fabales Fabaceae; MHMH = Apiales Apiaceae.  If a genus has the same typical plant as a family, the consonant is repeated with intervening E, whether or not the family and order have the same typical plant: CMEM- = Caryophyllales Amaranthaceae Amaranthus; RRER- = Rosales Rosaceae Rosa.  Otherwise letters for families, genera and species are arbitrary.  A complete name of a species generally looks like this: CTINFÄ’8 = Caryophyllales Cactaceae Cylindropuntia fulgida.  C is Caryophyllales, T is Cactaceae, IN is Cylindropuntia and F is fulgida.  The species may require two consonants when the 38 basic single consonants have been exhausted.  Thus, we might conceivably have a species CTINTSÄ’8, where TS would be the species letters.  However, if the second consonant of such a pair is R, as in DDEDCRÏ8, the letters CR do not denote a single species, but are applied to a select group of species that do not necessarily correspond to a recognized taxon: DDEDCRÏ8 = Dioscoreales Dioscoreaceae Dioscorea spp.  (some select species).  This provides a name for yam.

Varieties, cultivars and other subspecific groups have been given second vowel-consonant infixes: SSESLA8 = Brassicales Brassicaceae Brassica oleracea; SSESLEMA8 = Brassicales Brassicaceae Brassica oleracea gemmifera (Brussels sprouts).

A group or tribe of genera is denoted by a diphthong-consonant infix instead of a vowel-consonant infix: BBAIGJA8 = Fabales Fabaceae Genisteae.  This is the broom plant.  If the typical genus is to be denominated, the second vowel of the diphthong is elided:  BBAGJA8 = Fabales Fabaceae Genista.  AIGJ is considered the infix for the tribe and AGJ the infix for the sole species that has the same typical plant as the tribe.  Another genus  in the tribe might have an infix that in no way can be identified with the infix of the tribe by comparing letters: BBÁ'MA8 = Fabales Fabaceae (Genisteae) Retama.  This is because the taxon Tribe is not a regular feature of Nuu's botanical taxonomy, and is used only in those cases where it is unavoidable.

 Common names for peppers, except cayenne peppers, have all been identified only as Capsicum annuum, with no indications of varieties and cultivars, pending further information.  The suffix NÍ1 is used to mean unripe: BBIBCA8NÍ1 = unripe kidney beans = green/string beans.

If the common name refers severally to a species or the including genus and/or family, a judgment has been made in the list below.  For example, sage may refer to the species Salvia officinalis (Common sage) or to the whole genus Salvia.  Here the latter signification has been used.  In other instances, just the reverse may be the case. 

The suffix Ä1 (etc.) signifies that the subject taxon (species, etc.) is representative of several similar taxa which, however, are not coextensive with the including taxa.  For example, CCIDLÄ’8Ä1, pinks etcetera, include Dianthus plumarius and similar species but do not include the whole genus Dianthus.  In many informal cases, the suffix may just be dropped: CCIDLÄ’8 = pinks.

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