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Straussia
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Translingual
Etymology
mul la-new -, from Lorenz Strauss, faculty advisor to Franz Peters whose 1666 university dissertation De Potu Coffi included the first European illustrations of the coffee plant, mul ia.
Proper noun
1 f
mul obsolete genus family Rubiaceae now merged into genus Psychotria
Usage notes
Originally used by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1830). Applied by Asa Gray (1860) to Hawaiian relatives of the coffee plant. Sometimes confused with North American mul Strauzia.
Hypernyms
Rubiaceae family
References
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Psychotria 1
mul eponyms