Parvulus
/PAR-vyoo-lus/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
Also known as: parvula, parvulum
A size epithet meaning the plant is very small — even smaller or more delicate than parvus or minor. The diminutive suffix -ulus makes this the most emphatic of the 'small' epithets. Appears as parvulus (masculine), parvula (feminine), or parvulum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin parvulus, diminutive of parvus (small), meaning "very small" or "tiny."
Example
“Trifolium parvulum and Juncus parvulus are among the tiniest representatives of their genera — the diminutive epithet recording a smallness that goes beyond the merely modest to the genuinely minute.”