epithet for coastal plain

[Jan Haldeman]

Coast from Latin costa = rib, side and plain from Latin planus = flat or

level...how about costaplanus? Sort of rolls off your tongue!
Jan Haldeman

Will Fischer wrote:

> "litoralis" means "of the shore", but this may be too limited (i.e.
not far
> enough from the water's edge
> - see "littoral").
>
> On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 09:08 AM, Susan B. Farmer wrote:
>
> > I have a friend who is looking at a potential new taxon, and he was
> > wondering if there was an epithet meaning "coastal plain."  ...
> > -----
> > Susan Farmer
> > sfarmer at goldsword.com
> > Botany Department, University of Tennessee
> > http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium
> >
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