Straussia

Translingual

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin, from Lorenz Strauss, faculty advisor to Franz Peters whose 1666 university dissertation De Potu Coffi included the first European illustrations of the coffee plant, +‎ -ia.

Proper noun

Straussia f

1. (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Rubiaceae – now merged into genus Psychotria.

Usage notes

Originally used by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1830). Applied by Asa Gray (1860) to Hawaiian relatives of the coffee plant. Sometimes confused with North American Strauzia.

Hypernyms

• Rubiaceae

References

• Straussia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Straussia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Psychotria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons