Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder: Thalia dealbata

The Missouri Botanical Garden's Plant Finder entry for Thalia dealbata is the botanical garden's own institutional horticultural record; it carries no publication year because it is a continuously maintained database entry. Its strength is that it states directly that the genus name honors the German physician Johannes Thal, a claim corroborated independently both by Plants of the World Online from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and by the parallel, better documented naming of Arabidopsis thaliana, also after Thal, in the same historical source. Its limit is the ordinary one for a horticultural reference entry: it is written for gardeners and plant identification, not as a work of botanical etymology in its own right, though the specific naming claim it makes is independently corroborated.