colchica
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A geographic epithet for a plant of Colchis, the ancient name for the country at the eastern end of the Black Sea, in what is now western Georgia. It belongs with the classical place-names that early botanists preferred to modern political borders. Appears as colchicus (masculine), colchica (feminine), or colchicum (neuter).
Example
“Hedera colchica (Persian ivy) carries the epithet, its common name pointing to the same corner of the world as the Latin.”