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Nardus gangitis L.

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.



English translation with commentary
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


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