Bagging the big five; was RE: Gladiolus tristis

dells@voicenet.com dells@voicenet.com
Thu, 21 May 2009 07:47:39 PDT
Paramongaia is named after the location Paramonga in Peru, so the ending -ia is perhaps
just the Latin ending. The name has nothing to do with the Greek Gaea, I think. It
certainly is on the top of my list of five.

Dell



> And better make that Paramongaia, not Paramongaea, although I suspect that
> the latter is grammatically correct and the former is based on an unorthodox
> transliteration from the Greek.
>
> Jim McKenney
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