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Sarracenia purpurea L.

Taxonomic history:
    1753: Linnaeus described this species as Sarracenia purpurea in Species Plantarum, 1st ed., p. 510.
   today: The current name for this species is Sarracena purpurea L.


original Latin diagnosis
Sarracenia foliis gibbis.

English translation
Sarracenia with leaves gibbous.


English translation with commentary
Sarracenia Sarracenia
with leaves foliis - ablative plural of second declension neuter noun folium, folii
gibbous. gibbis - ablative plural neuter of group A adjective gibbus, -a, -um; modifies foliis.



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