Crinum woodrowii Baker ex W.Watson

KRY-num or KREE-num -- Greek: krinon, meaning lily ... Dave's Botanary
wood-ROW-ee-eye -- named for G M Woodrow, who first collected this species ... POWO

commonly known as: Woodrow's crinum lily • Marathi: रोवी कर्णफुल rowi karnaphul


botanical names: Crinum woodrowii Baker ex W.Watson ... synonyms: none ... POWO

Bibliography / etymology

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Woodrow's crinum lily

• named for the British botanist George Marshall Woodrow (who made contribution to the study of plants in Western India, particularly in the Northern Western Ghats), by the British botanist (and Keeper of Kew's Herbarium) John Gilbert Baker; the former had collected this species, while the latter described it ... POWO

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रोवी कर्णफुल rowi karnaphul

• name given to this plant by the author of Further Flowers of Sahyadri, Shrikant Ingalhalikar

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