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Diapensia lapponica L.

Taxonomic history:
    1753: Linnaeus described this species as Diapensia lapponica in Species Plantarum, 1st ed., p. 141 of Ray Society 1957 facsimile.
   today: The current name for this species is Diapensia lapponica L.


original Latin diagnosis
Diapensia floribus pedunculatis.

English translation
Diapensia with flowers pedunculate.


English translation with commentary
Diapensia Diapensia
with flowers floribus - ablative plural of third declension masculine noun flos, floris
pedunculate. pedunculatis - ablative plural masculine of group A adjective pedunculatus, -a, -um; modifies floribus



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