logania

logania
/loh gay"nee euh/, n.
any of several plants or shrubs of the genus Logania, native chiefly to Australia, having small white or pink flowers. Cf. logania family.
[ < NL: genus name, after James Logan (1674-1751), colonial American botanist, born in Ireland; see -IA]

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  • Logania (butterfly) — Taxobox name = Logania regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Lepidoptera familia = Lycaenidae genus = Logania Logania is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae …   Wikipedia

  • logania family — the plant family Loganiaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs of warm regions having usually opposite leaves, clusters of regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or fleshy fruit, and including the butterfly… …   Universalium

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