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    fontanesiana

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    A commemorative epithet honouring René Desfontaines, a French botanist. The -iana ending turns a surname into an adjective, dedicating the species to him rather than describing any feature of the plant. Appears as fontanesianus (masculine), fontanesiana (feminine), or fontanesianum (neuter).