Flavum is a Latin word meaning "yellow". It is often used in taxonomy for species names typically in scientific names for animals and plants to refer to the flower colour or other aspect of the species.

Animals

* '' Aeromicrobium flavum'', Gram-positive facultatively anaerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Aeromicrobium * '' Chryseobacterium flavum'', Gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-motile bacteria from the genus of Chryseobacterium * ''

Etheostoma flavum The saffron darter (''Etheostoma flavum'') is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is endemic to the easte ...

'', (saffron darter) a fish species found in Tennessee * ''

Gnomibidion flavum ''Gnomibidion flavum'' is a species of beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other i ...

'', species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae * '' Lophopoeum w-flavum'', species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae * '' Microbacterium flavum'', Gram-positive and aerobic bacterium from the genus of Microbacterium * ''

Punctulum flavum ''Punctulum flavum'' is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.Bouchet, P. (2011). Punctulum flavum (Okutani, 1964). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.mari ...

'', species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae * '' Oxalicibacterium flavum'', Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming, yellow-pigmented, and oxalotrophic bacterium from the genus Oxalicibacterium * ''

Spectamen flavum ''Spectamen flavum'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.WoRMS (2012). ''Spectamen flavum''. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails& ...

'', species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae * '' Tragiscoschema cor-flavum'', species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae * '' Tropidion flavum'', species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae

Plants

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Allium flavum ''Allium flavum'', the small yellow onionEllen Spector Platt or yellow-flowered garlic, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Allium''. A bulbous herbaceous perennial, it is native to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean, Black, and ...

'', ('Small yellow onion') species of onion native to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas * '' Arisaema flavum'', (Konso litota or panshalla) species of flowering plant widespread across eastern Africa and southern Asia * '' Bulbophyllum flavum'', species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum * '' Conophytum flavum'', small South African species of succulent plant of the genus Conophytum * '' Cypripedium flavum'', (the orchid species yellow cypripedium), endemic to China * ''

Eriogonum flavum ''Eriogonum flavum'' is a species of wild buckwheat. Common names This flower has several common names, including but not limited to: Pipers buckwheat, Pipers golden buckwheat, Yellow umbrella plant,Neil L. Jennings and Pipers Wild Buckwheat ...

'', the alpine golden buckwheat, native to northwestern North America * ''

Glaucium flavum ''Glaucium flavum'', the yellow horned poppy, yellow hornpoppy or sea poppy, is a summer flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae. It is native to Europe, Northern Africa, Macaronesia and temperate zones in Western Asia. The plant grows on th ...

'', (yellow hornpoppy or yellow horned poppy) summer flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae, which is native to Northern Africa, Macaronesia, temperate zones in Western Asia and the Caucasus and Europe * ''

Hymenosporum flavum ''Hymenosporum'' is a Monotypic taxon , monotypic genus in the family Pittosporaceae. The sole included species is ''Hymenosporum flavum'', commonly known as native frangipani, which is a rainforest tree native to New Guinea, Queensland and Ne ...

'', (native frangipani) rainforest tree which is native to Queensland and New South Wales in Australia and New Guinea * ''

Lepidium flavum ''Lepidium flavum'' is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name yellow pepperweed. It is native to California, Nevada, and Baja California, where it grows in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. The species epithet ...

'', (yellow pepperweed) species of flowering plant in the mustard family, it is native to California, Nevada, and Baja California * '' Linum flavum'', (the golden flax or yellow flax) species of flowering plant in the family Linaceae, native to central and southern Europe * ''

Pleopsidium flavum ''Pleopsidium flavum'' (gold cobblestone lichen)The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, John Muir Laws , 2007 is a distinctively colored, bright lemon-yellow to chartreuseCrustose Rock Lichens, Wayne P. Armstrong, Wayne's World online textbook ...

'', (gold cobblestone lichen) is a distinctively coloured, bright lemon-yellow to chartreuse crustose lichen * '' Prasophyllum flavum'', (yellow leek orchid) species of orchid endemic to eastern Australia * ''

Teucrium flavum ''Teucrium flavum'' is a species of shrub in the family Lamiaceae The Lamiaceae ( ) or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include ...

'', (yellow germander) * ''

Thalictrum flavum ''Thalictrum flavum'', known by the common names common meadow-rue, poor man's rhubarb, and yellow meadow-rue,Peder Skou is a flowering plant species in the family Ranunculaceae. It is a native to Caucasus and Russia (Siberia). Growing to tall ...

'', (common meadow-rue, and yellow meadow-rue) flowering plant species in the family Ranunculaceae * ''

Zanthoxylum flavum ''Zanthoxylum flavum'' is a medium-sized tree in the family Rutaceae. Common names include noyer, West Indian satinwood, yellow sanders, tembetaria, and yellow sandalwood. It is native to Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba, ...

'', (noyer, West Indian satinwood, yellow sanders, tembetaria, and yellow sandalwood) medium-sized tree in the citrus family, Rutaceae

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