# Etymology :: epithet osyrensis **URL:** \ **Category:** Nature Talk\ **Created:** [September 12, 2021, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etymology-epithet-osyrensis/26275 "2021-09-12T06:58:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dineshvalke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dineshvalke/32/21466_2.png) [@dineshvalke](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/dineshvalke)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etymology-epithet-osyrensis/26275/1 "2021-09-12T06:58:57Z")
Please help with the etymology of _ **osyrensis** _ as in _Argyreia osyrensis_ (Roth) Choisy The suffix _ensis_ would mean “of or from some place”. However, I was not able to find. In my post at Google Group [efloraofindia](https://groups.google.com/g/indiantreepix/c/i06s6Q87bC8/m/wy49HB-kNpYJ), Ron suggested it may have some connection with sandalwoods in some manner … stemming from _osyr_ - Greek _Osyris_ - genus of plants in the Family Santalacea - many of its genus known as sandalwoods. His perspective that it could be a place where sandalwoods grow, is the nearest possibility of finding what _osyrensis_ is named for. Looking forward to know about this epithet’s etymology. ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etymology-epithet-osyrensis/26275/2 "2021-09-12T11:21:25Z")
> [@dineshvalke](#): > > Argyreia osyrensis Can you find a copy (scanned online?) of the 1845 description? [https://convolvulaceae.myspecies.info/content/argyreia-osyrensis-0](https://convolvulaceae.myspecies.info/content/argyreia-osyrensis-0) ---
**Author:** ![0x4372616967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/e19adc/32.png) [@0x4372616967](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/0x4372616967)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etymology-epithet-osyrensis/26275/3 "2021-09-12T11:25:07Z")
Based on the original descriptions I think it’s referring to a place called “Osyre” in India. But I cannot find a modern name for the place so I could be way off mark Edit: [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7158#page/339/mode/1up](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7158#page/339/mode/1up) ---
**Author:** ![0x4372616967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/e19adc/32.png) [@0x4372616967](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/0x4372616967)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etymology-epithet-osyrensis/26275/4 "2021-09-12T11:35:32Z")
[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316527851\_A\_nomenclatural\_review\_of\_Argyreia\_Convolvulaceae](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316527851_A_nomenclatural_review_of_Argyreia_Convolvulaceae) > Argyreia osyrensis (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) Choisy in > Candolle, Prodr. 9: 334. 1845 ≡ Ipomoea osyrensis Roth ex > Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 4: 239. 1819; “Ipomoea osyren- > sis” Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp.: 117. 1821, isonym ≡ Lettsomia aggre- > gata var. osyrensis (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) C.B.Clarke in > Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 4: 192. 1883, nom. illeg. ≡ Argyreia > aggregata var. osyrensis (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) Gagnep. > & Courchet in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 4: 280. 1915, nom. > illeg. ≡ Argyreia imbricata var. osyrensis (Roth ex Roem. > & Schult.) Santapau & V.Patel in Trans. Bose Res. Inst. > Calcutta 22: 40. 1958 – Lectotype (designated here): India. > **“in Osyre, India orientalis”** , B. Heyne s.n. under Wallich Cat. > 1362.2 (K-W!; isolectotype: G-DC barcode G00135993!). I’m at a dead end ---
**Author:** ![0x4372616967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/e19adc/32.png) [@0x4372616967](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/0x4372616967)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etymology-epithet-osyrensis/26275/5 "2021-09-12T11:40:36Z")
After some further looking I think that it is (or was) a place in Dutch East India ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/7/2/72f54b19b159a1fa3971cadc0ef7128e7322645d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etymology-epithet-osyrensis/26275/6 "2021-09-12T12:43:24Z")
Need to find a historian next … ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etymology-epithet-osyrensis/26275/7 "2021-09-12T13:14:21Z")
from [https://www.ipni.org/n/60476136-2](https://www.ipni.org/n/60476136-2) : > Heyne made the collection in Orissa and coined the manuscript name Convolvulus orixensis (as seen from his hand-written annotation on a syntype specimen); Roth misread Heyne’s epithet as osyrensis and published the same. The publishing authors Romer and Schultes ascribed the name and the description together to: Roth … MSS. Therefore, Roth is the author of the species name (see the ICN Art. 46 Ex. 22) Odisha is the modern name of Orissa. It’s a state in Eastern India. ---
**Author:** ![dineshvalke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dineshvalke/32/21466_2.png) [@dineshvalke](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/dineshvalke)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etymology-epithet-osyrensis/26275/8 "2021-09-27T19:06:57Z")
Many many thanks all: @0x4372616967 and @pisum Etymology of this epithet _osyrensis_ kept eluding me; thanks to you all for your time and inputs. The content “Native of the East Indies, in Osyre, where it is called Mala-Erikaliga” shows up at many sites. However, the content in “Remarks” at [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/n/60476136-2) seems to be a valid conclusion. Thanks @pisum for leading to this content. ---
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