A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

exfolians,-antis (part.B): exfoliating, with foliage falling; also to peel or “to come away in scales or flakes, as the bark of the Plane” (Jackson), Platanus occidentalis; “cleaving off in thin layers” (Fernald 1950); cf. decorticans,-antis (part.B): with bark peeling off;

- cortex exfolians, the bark exfoliating.

- cortice in lamellas exfolianti, with the bark exfoliating in plates.

- epiphyticae in foliis Aceris sacchari exfoliantis, epiphytic on leaves of exfoliating Acer saccharum.

NOTE: Platanaceae: “Arbores cortice saepius in squamas latas quotannis deciduo (B&H), trees with the bark deciduous very often every year into broad scales.

A work in progress, presently with preliminary A through R, and S, and with S (in part) through Z essentially completed.
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