Liquidambar styraciflua

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Liquidambar styraciflua L.

Taxonomic history:
1753: Linnaeus described this species as Liquidambar styraciflua in Species Plantarum, edition 1, p. 999.
today: The current name for this species is Liquidambar styraciflua L.

original Latin diagnosis
Liquidambar foliis palmato-angulatis.

English translation
Liquidambar with leaves palmate-angular.

English translation with commentary

Liquidambar Liquidambar

with leaves foliis - ablative plural of second declension neuter noun folium, -i

palmate-angular. palmato-angulatis - palmato- (combining form of group A adjective palmatus, -a, -um + angulatis (ablative plural neuter of group A adjective angulatus, -a, -um); modifies foliis

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Liquidambar	Liquidambar
with leaves	foliis - ablative plural of second declension neuter noun folium, -i
palmate-angular.	palmato-angulatis - palmato- (combining form of group A adjective palmatus, -a, -um + angulatis (ablative plural neuter of group A adjective angulatus, -a, -um); modifies foliis