Taxonomic history:
1753: Linnaeus described this species as Nardus gangitis in Species Plantarum, 1st ed., p. 53.
today: The current name for this species is Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph. Wood
original Latin diagnosis
Nardus spica recurva.
English translation
Nardus with a spike setaceous [and] straight.
| Nardus | Nardus |
| with a spike | spica - ablative singular of first declension feminine noun spica, -ae |
| recurved. | recurva - ablative singular feminine of group A adjective recurvus, -a, -um; modifies spica |