A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Rupes, gen. sg. rupis (s.f.III), acc. sg. rupem, abl. sg rupe, nom. & acc. pl. rupes, gen. pl. rupium (i-stem noun), dat. & abl. pl. rupibus: a rock; cliff; note a rock may be standing or fixed, a stone separated; see stone; cf. scopulus,-i (s.m.II), “a projecting point of rock; a rock, cliff, crag, esp. a rock, shelf, ledge in the sea” (Lewis & Short); see rock.

Abbrev. rupib.: dat. and abl. pl. of rupes, q.v., gen. sg. rupis (s.f.III), rock;

- in rupib. calcar. Humid. montis Splügen (C. Muell.), [in rupibus calcareis humidis], on calcareous, moist rocks [i.e. cliffs] of Splügen mountain.

Abbrev. rup.: dat. and abl.sg.; of rupes, q.v., gen. sg. rupis (s.f.III), rock;

- in monte Peissenberg ad rup. arenac. (C. Muell.) on Peissenberg mountain on sand(stone) rock.

NOTE: saxum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. saxo: “any large, rough stone; a detached fragment of rock; a rock (in general; whereas rupes is a steep rock, crag, cliff) (Lewis & Short);

- loca umbrosa humida ad rupes et saxa praeprimis calcarea per regionem montanam et subalpinam totius Europae (C. Muell.), moist, shady places on rocks and stones, especially calcareous throughout the montain and subalpine region of all Europe.

- [mosses] in rupibus et saxis calcareis, arenaceis et graniticis per regionem montanam totius Europae et in America septentrionali (C. Muell.), on rocks and stones calcareous, sandy [i.e. sandstone] and granitic throughout the montane region of all Europe and in north America.

- [hepat.] supra muscos ad rupes sicciusculus (Lindb.), above mosses on rather dry rock.

- rupes cavae, abl. sg. rupe cava: caverns, grottos, ‘hollow rocks’ [cavus,-a,-um (adj.A) = hollow].

- rupes praecelsi, very high cliffs; cf. rock.

- habitat ad lapides rupesque irriguas, it grows on wet stones and rocks.

- in rupibus gypsaceis, on gypsaceous rocks.

- Hab. in umbrosis summi jugi san Anton prope Malaga, ad pedem rupium inter chamaeropes (Boissier), it grows in shady [places] of the summit of the ridge san Anton near Malaga, at the foot of cliffs among chamaeropes.

- crescit in rupibus calcareis versus mare, Jamaicae (Swartz), it grows on calcareous rocks facing the sea, of Jamaica.

- Patria. Ad rupes abruptos humidos (Mueller), native place: on steep moist rocks [i.e. cliffs].

- in rupibus gneissaceis madidis cum Marchantiaceis, on wet gneissic rocks with Marchantiaceae.

- in pulvinis muscorum ad cataractas et fontes rupium altissimarum secus ripam superiorem sinistram fluvii Victoriae (F. Mueller), on pillows of mosses at the cataracts and springs of the highest rocks [i.e. cliffs] along the upper left bank of the river of Victoria.

- in summis alpibus Helvetiae, ubi in glareosis alp. Sanensium 1801 legit Bridel, ad rupes humidiusculas semidecompositas (C. Muell.), on the alpine summits of Switzerland, where Bridel collected in in 1801 on the scree of mount Sanensis, on somewhat moist half-decomposed cliffs.

Sandstone: rupes (pl.) arenaceae (adj.A), and rupes arenariae (adj.A); - in rupibus arenariis (C. Muell.), on sandy [i.e. sandstone] rocks.