Straussia

== Translingual == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from New Latin, from Lorenz Strauss, faculty advisor to Franz Peters whose 1666 university dissertation De Potu Coffi included the first European illustrations of the coffee plant, +‎ -ia. === Proper noun === Straussia f (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Rubiaceae – now merged into genus Psychotria. ==== Usage notes ==== Originally used by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1830). Applied by Asa Gray (1860) to Hawaiian relatives of the coffee plant. Sometimes confused with North American Strauzia. ==== Hypernyms ==== Rubiaceae === References === Straussia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Straussia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Psychotria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons