pauciflora
/paw-sih-FLOR-uh/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
Also known as: pauciflorus, pauciflorum
A floral arrangement epithet for a plant that opens only a handful of flowers at a time, in contrast to the crowded display of the many-flowered epithets. This is the feminine ending, used with feminine genera. Appears as pauciflorus (masculine), pauciflora (feminine), or pauciflorum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin paucus (few) + flos/floris (flower), meaning "few-flowered."
Example
“Corylopsis pauciflora (buttercup winter hazel) and Brunfelsia pauciflora (yesterday-today-and-tomorrow) both carry the feminine ending, each opening only a few flowers to a cluster.”