A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

etiamsi (conj.), also etiam si (conj.), “a concessive conditional particle, more emphatic than ‘etsi,’ : even if, although; see although; may be used with the indicative or the subjunctive” (Lewis & Short);

- [Eriocaulon] foliis haud distincte fenestratis (etiamsi cellulosis et pellucentibus) (F. Mueller), with the leaves hardly distinctly fenestrate (even if cellulose and pellucent).

- flores simplices monopetali anomali, etiamsi pauciores, multiformes tamen sunt: nec singulari nomine comprehendi possunt (Tourn.), anomalous [i.e. irregular] monopetalous [i.e. gamopetalous] simple [i.e. not compound] flowers, even if fewer, however, they are of many shapes: they cannot be comprehended with a single name.

- an propterea Glycyrrhizae nomen negandum plantae, quae flores & fructus obtineret floribus & fructibus Glycyrrhizae vulgaris similes; etiamsi caulis ejus longe brevior esset, radixque minime repens, amara, candida aut nigricans (Tourn.), perhaps, with that in view, the name of the plant Glycyrrhiza [i.e. sweet-root] should be rejected; which may have displayed flowers and fruits similar to the flowers and fruits of Glycyrrhiza vulgaris: even if its stem might be far shorter, and the root the least bit creeping, bitter, shining white or becoming a [shining] black.

- petala vocantur folia illa, quae forma & colore plerumque caeteris partibus praestant, quaeque nunquam siunt proprium seminis involucrum: unde Hellebori nigri, albique vulgaris flores petalis donari existimantur, etiamsi illa subviridia sint & diuturniora, quia fructus involucrum nequaquam evadunt (Tourn.), the petals are called those leaves, which, by form and color, usually surpass the other parts, and every [petal] may never be the proper involucre of the seed: for which reason it is common that the flowers of Helleborus niger and albus are considered to be furnished with petals, even if those [i.e. the former, i.e. H. niger] may be somewhat green and longer-lasting, [because] the involucre of the fruit never does come forth at all.

NOTE: Helleborus albus = Veratrum, in Tournefort

- hi caracteres [sic] etiamsi e partibus minutissimis eruti, optime videntur in seminibus, praecipue ante perfectam maturitatem aut ineunte germinatione (DeCandolle), these characters even if extracted from the smallest parts, are best seen in the seeds, especially before completed maturity or the onset of germination.

- [fungi] sententia nimirum Todeana (II, p. 7), ostiola Macrostomarum mera mucilaginis in ipso expulsu induratae esse figmenta, multis , etiamsi non in omnibus speciebus ad naturae veritatem proxime accedit (S&A), doubtless the Todean opinion (II, p. 7), that the genuine ostioles of the Macrostomae to be a creation of the hardened mucilage in the discharge itself, by many, although not by all, the species, most closely approaches to the truth of nature [H. J. Tode, German mycologist (1733-1797)].