A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

abietinus,-a,-um (adj.A): abietine, of, or growing upon firs (Abies); (epithet) Abies-like; “resembling the fir tree” (Stearn 1996);

- disco trunci abietini serra truncati innatum (S&A), adherent on a sawnoff disc of the trunk of a fir (tree) cut off with a saw.

- in ligno semiputri serra truncato (abietino, ut videbatur) semel reperta (S&A), on half-rotted wood cut with a saw (fir, as it seemed) found once.

- truncos abietinos aliosque praeamat vulgatior a, folia ac varias quisquilias humi degentes locis praesertim tectis b; utraque aestiva et autumnalis (S&A), it loves very much fir-tree trunks and other [trees], more common a, leaves and various litter living on the ground, especially roofs b; each one of summer and autumn.

- in ramulis frondosis rarior: praefert enim cortices pineos abietinsque (S&A), more rare on leaf-bearing [i.e. deciduous hard-wood] branches, for it prefers the bark of pines and firs.

- in pinetis (vix in sylvis abietinis, nedum frondosis) (S&A), in pine-woods (scarcely in fir-forests, much less frondose [i.e. deciduous].

- (fungi) disco trunci abietini serra truncati innatum (S&A), adherent with the disc to the fir-trunk by a truncate tooth.

- [fungi] [var. alpha] ramulis siccis deciduis, muscis, foliis etc. innata in abietinis umbrosis ineunte Septembri (B&H), grown up on dry branchlets, mosses, leaves, etc. of shaded Abies at the onset of September.

- vulgaris occurrit ad ramos tiliaceos, quercinos , abietinos etc. praesertim tamen in populneis abundantissima: autumno, frequentior vere (S&A), common, it occurs on tiliaceous branches, oaken, fir, etc., especially however most abundant on Poplar: in autumn, more frequent in spring.

- [moss] in sylvis abietinis, plantis putredine decompositis vel stercore vaccino insidens vetusto, socio Splachno gracili, haud raro occurrit (c. Mueller), in fir forests, situated on plants decomposed by putrefaction or on old cow dung, it does not rarely occur in the society of Splachnum gracilis.

- [fungus] arcte caespitosus vel fascicularis truncis putridis praeprimis abietinis innascitur fungus serotinus (S&A), a late-developing fungus tightly caespitose or in fascicles, arises primarily on rotted fir trunks.

Dendroalsia abietina (Hook.) Britt., although preferring angiospermous substrates, the name of this moss perhaps is due to its growth in the cedar-hemlock-larch ecozone of northern Idaho, NW Montana and SE British Columbia; Polyporus abietinus, a fungus growing on the dead wood of conifers; Thuidium abietinum, a pleurocarpous moss species “named in reference to a supposed resemblance to Abies, or fir, perhaps in the flat manner of branching” (Crum & Anderson 1981).

Abietinella, a genus of mosses: the adj. + dim. -ella.