tuberosa
/too-ber-OH-suh/🏷️ Taxonomy● Basic
Also known as: tuberosus, tuberosum
A morphological epithet marking a plant that stores food in tubers, swollen underground stems or roots that also serve for vegetative increase, and the feminine form used where the genus is feminine. Appears as tuberosus (masculine), tuberosa (feminine), or tuberosum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin tuber, meaning "a lump or swelling."
Example
“Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed) and Phlomis tuberosa (tuberous Jerusalem sage) both take the feminine ending their genera require.”