Officinalis
Officinalis, officinale, or occasionally officinarum is a Medieval Latin epithet denoting organisms—mainly plants—with uses in medicine, herbalism, manufacturing, and cookery. It commonly occurs as a specific epithet, the second term of a two-part botanical name. Officinalis is used to modify masculine and feminine nouns, while officinale is used for neuter nouns.
Etymology
The word officinalis literally means 'of or belonging to an ', the storeroom of a monastery, where medicines and other necessaries were kept. Officīna was a contraction of opificīna, from 'worker, maker, doer' +,, 'one who does', from facere 'do, perform'. When Linnaeus invented the binomial system of nomenclature, he gave the specific name officinalis, in the 1735 of his Systema Naturae, to plants with an established medicinal, culinary, or other use.Species
- Alpina officinarum
- Althaea officinalis
- Anchusa officinalis
- Asparagus officinalis
- Avicennia officinalis
- Betonica officinalis syn. Stachys officinalis
- Bistorta officinalis
- Borago officinalis
- Buddleja officinalis
- Calendula officinalis
- Cinchona officinalis
- Cochlearia officinalis
- Corallina officinalis
- Cornus officinalis
- Cyathula officinalis
- Cynoglossum officinale
- Euphrasia officinalis
- Fumaria officinalis
- Galega officinalis
- Gratiola officinalis
- Guaiacum officinale
- Hyssopus officinalis
- Jasminum officinale
- Laricifomes officinalis
- Lavandula officinalis syn. Lavandula angustifolia
- Levisticum officinale
- Lithospermum officinale
- Magnolia officinalis
- Melilotus officinalis
- Melissa officinalis
- Morinda officinalis
- Nasturtium officinale
- Paeonia officinalis
- Parietaria officinalis
- Pilosella officinarum
- Pimenta officinalis syn. Pimenta dioica
- Pulmonaria officinalis
- Rheum officinale
- Rosa gallica 'Officinalis'
- Rosmarinus officinalis syn. Salvia rosmarinus
- Salvia officinalis
- Sanguisorba officinalis
- Saponaria officinalis
- Scindapsus officinalis
- Senega officinalis syn. Polygala senega
- Sepia officinalis
- Sisymbrium officinale
- Spongia officinalis
- Styrax officinalis
- Symphytum officinale
- Taraxacum officinale
- Valeriana officinalis
- Verbena officinalis
- Veronica officinalis
- ''Zingiber officinale''