Gerardia

Translingual Etymology mul botany :af en:Gerard<id:name> la:-ia<id:abstract noun> 1 + The botanical genera are mul-tax English herbalist John Gerard John Gerard 1545 1612 1. Proper noun 1 f mul-tax obsolete Several taxonomic genera: mul-tax botany 1753-1836 genus family Acanthaceae a type of purple flower, see Stenandrium genus mul-tax botany 1836-1956 genus family Orobanchaceae a type of purple flower, see Agalinis genus mul-tax zoology 1864 genus family Parazoanthidae family a type of hexacoral, see Savalia genus mul-tax zoology 1954-2015 genus family Tenebrionidae a type of darkling beetle, see Piccula genus Usage notes In botany, Linnaeus' original 1753 description of Gerardia included one specimen of Stenandrium genus and four of Agalinis genus; this error was first established in 1810, but disagreement over the rules of nomenclature resulted in the name Gerardia being officially rejected for either taxon in 1956 and 1959, respectively.en 2025 Vinicius Castro Souza;Juliana de Paula-Souza;Maribeth Latvis Proposal to conserve Agalinis, nom. cons. against the additional name Esterhazya (Orobanchaceae) Taxon https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/tax.70025 74 4 994 In zoology, Gerardia was accepted as the name of Piccula genus for over 60 years before taxonomists realized the name hadn't been available, already discarded as a superfluous name of Savalia genus almost a century earlier. References 1 1