Decorus
/deh-KOH-rus/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
Also known as: decora
An aesthetic epithet meaning the plant is decorative or becoming — particularly well-suited to ornamental use, fitting gracefully into its setting. Appears as decorus (masculine), decora (feminine), or decorum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin decorus, meaning "fitting" or "decorative," from decor (beauty, grace), from decere (to be fitting).
Example
“Acer decorum and Lonicera decora carry this epithet for an elegant, appropriate beauty — plants that enhance their setting by being exactly the right thing in the right place.”