A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

-phyllus,-a,-um (adj.A): in Gk. comp., possessing a (specified) leaf, -leaved, q.v.; -phyllous [> Gk. phyllon (s.n.II), a leaf; in pl. leaves, or collectively foliage; a plant, in general; (esp. used of medicinal) herbs” (after Liddell & Scott)];

NOTE: the Greek noun and its suffix does not apply to anything but plants.

- aphyllus,-a,-um (adj.A): without leaves, leafless; “without leaves or apparently so” (Stearn 1996);

- (Usnea) est vero Usnea Musci genus aphyllum, ex meris caulibus seu funiculis & filis constans (Dill.), Usnea is a leafless kind of [Moss], composed of nothing but stems composed of either strings [i.e. small ropes] and strands [filaments].

- anisophyllus, q.v.; chlorophyllus, green-leaved; dasyphyllus, with hairy leaves; decaphyllus, with 10 leaves; dolichophyllum, with long leaves; eriophyllus, with woolly leaves; gamophyllous, with united (connate)leaves; helicophyllus, with spiral leaves; heterophyllus, having leaves of more than one form; isophyllus, with equal leaves or leaves of one form or type; lasiophyllus, with woolly leaves; porphyrophyllus, “purple-leaved” (Stearn 1990).

- nectarium 2-phylIum 1. 2-labiatum. Labium inferiu sub lacinia superiore corollae insertum, patens, erectiusculum, integrum 1- 3 - lobum. (Swartz), nectarium 2-leaved, 1-2-lipped. the lower lip inserted under the upper lacinia of the corolla, spreading, nearly erect, entire, 1-3-lobed.

NOTE: in L. comp. -foliatus,-a,-um (adj.A), -folius,-a,-um (adj.A).

NOTE: (lichens) in foliose lichens, compounds in -phyllus refer to lobes (not leaves).

endophyllus,-a,-um (adj.A): endophyllous, “formed from within a sheathing leaf; as the young leaves of Endogens” (Lindley); growing within the leaf tissue.

epiphyllus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.: epiphyllous, growing on leaves or leaf-like organs or, in mycology, on the upper surface of leaves - may be of a plant or other plants; opp. endophyllus,-a,-um (adj.A): endophyllous, growing within the leaf tissue [> Gk. epi, upon + phyllon, leaf];

hypophyllus,-a,-um (adj.A), (of fungi) growing on the UNDER surface of the leaf.

malacophyllus,-a,-um (adj.A): “having soft or fleshy leaves, as in malacophyllus xerophytes” (WIII): xerophyton,-i (s.n.II) malacophyllum, abl.sg. xerophyto malacophyllo.

microphyllus, with small leaves; macrophyllus, with large-leaves; polyphyllus, with many leaves.

monophyllus,-a,-um (adj.A, q.v.: one-leaved, “having only one leaf; or several leaves united by their edges into one” (Lindley).

phycophyllus,-a,-um (adj.A): phycophyllous, with algae-like leaves.

platyphyllus,-a,-um (adj.A): platyphyllous, in lichens and fungi, broad-lobed, with lobes so broad as to resemble leaves;

- forma platyphylla (C. crispum v. nudum Schaer. 1. c ) statu thallo cinerascente ad ligna aqua saepe immersa (Nyl.), a broad-leaved [i.e. broad-lobed] form with the thallus condition ashy, often on wood immersed in water.

polyphyllus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.: with many leaves; polyphyllous, having an involucre composed of many leaves; (of foliose lichens) polyphyllous, having numerous leaf-like thalli.

- [lichen] thallus plumbeo-fuscescens vel fusco-virescens aut fere monophyllus lobato-incisus, aut polyphyllus (tunc complicatus), lobis sinuatis, supra laevis vel saepius tenuiter nigricanti-furfuraceus, subtus cinereus vel albo-cinereus denseque breviter incano-tomentellus (Nyl.), the thallus leaden-gray to grayed-brown or grayed brown to greenish either almost monophyllous [i.e. with one lobe], lobately-incised, or polyphyllous [i.e. with may lobes] (then it is complicate [i.e. folded upon itself], with the lobes sinuate, smooth above or more often thinly grayed-black-furfuraceous [i.e. covered with soft scales], beneath ash-gray or white-ashen gray and also densely, shortly whitish-gray tomentellous.

- [lichen] thallus supra laevis vel saepius tenuiter nigricanti-furfuraceus, subtus cinereus vel albo-cinereus denseque breviter incano-tomentellus (Nyl.), thallus smooth above or more often thinly grayed-black-furfuraceous [i.e. covered with soft scales], beneath ash-gray or white-ashen gray and also densely, shortly whitish-gray tomentellous.

trichophyllus,-a,-um (adj.A): with hair-like leaves; with leaves adorned with hair or a hair-point at the leaf apex.

triphyllus,-a,-um (adj.A): triphyllous, “having its leaves in a whorl of three, or having only three leaves” (Lindley).

“The involucre is composed of one or more leaves. When composed of one, it is denominated ‘involucrum monophyllum,’ a one-leafed involucre, as in Bupleurum (Thorough-wax): when of two leaves, ‘involucrum diphyllum,’ a two-leafed involucre, as in Euphorbia (Spurge): when of three, ‘involucrum triphyllum,’ as in Butomus (Flowering-rush), and Alisma (Water plantain): when of four, ‘involucrum tetraphyllum,’ as in Cornus: when of five, involucrum pentaphyllum,’ as in Daucus (Carrot): and when of six, ‘involucrum hexaphyllum,’ as in Haemanthus” (Barton).