Derivation of the botanical name:
Nonea, Nonnea, for Johann Philipp. Nonne (1729–72), botanical writer, and Professor of Medicine from Erfurt, Germany.
echioides, resembling the genus Echium, Greek echis, a viper, the nutlets appearing to represent a viper's head.
ventricosa, swollen on one side.
The Hebrew name: נוניאה, nonea, transliteration from the scientific name.
- The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
- The standard author abbreviation Roemer is used to indicate Johann Jakob Roemer (1763 – 1819), a Swiss physician, professor of botany and entomologist.
- The standard author abbreviation Schultes is used to indicate Josef August Schultes (1773 – 1831), an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna.
- The standard author abbreviation Sm. is used to indicate James Edward Smith (1759 – 1828), an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.
- The standard author abbreviation Griseb. is used to indicate August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach (1814 – 1879), a German botanist and phytogeographer.
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