A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

riparius,-a,-um (adj.A), riparianus,-a,-um (adj.A): frequenting banks of streams or rivers, riverside; “growing on the banks of pieces of water” (Lindley); (in bryophytes) “growing by rivers and streams’ (Magill) [> L. ripa,-ae (s.f.I), q.v. bank of a stream; shore]; see coastal.

Vitis riparia Michx.'of river-banks;' Leptodictum riparium, a moss that is said to frequent the wet soil on banks of rivers.

Leptodictyum riparium [moss]: described by Linnaeus as Hypnum “riparium,” and by Dillenius as H. aquaticum. Hedwig reported it as on the fresher, flowing, gushing waters, still waters, on (wooden) pilings and stones; “the species name refers to banks of rivers. The plants grow, however, not on banks but in river valleys or other swampy places where seasonal flooding occurs (esp. in hardwood swamps)on wet humus, leaf litter, decayed wood, and fallen twigs and branches in swamps, esp. in shallow derpressions flooded in spring sometimes immersed in still or running water, common in springs” (C&A).