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This book is not a reliable source for etymologies. The authors evidently don't know Greek, and their etymons are often wrong. Michel Chauvet (talk) 17:14, 23 May 2023 (UTC).[reply]

I see you've made some edits to the English Wikipedia over the years, and that you have plenty of experience with botany and etymology. I'm open to discussing this. I asked around at the talk page of the plants wikiproject several years ago about which sources they prefer for answering these questions, and I used only those sources for etymology in this list. But I'm sure I've made mistakes, and I tended to give very short answers ... so the problem might not be that the botanists are wrong, it might be that I didn't report everything the botanists said. If you'll tell me which source you used for the changes you just made, I'll go ask again over at the plants wikiproject about which sources they prefer (including whatever sources you're using). - Dank (push to talk) 17:43, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]