An archaic or variant plural form referring to daphne plants or multiple species of the daphne genus.
From Latin-Greek hybrid formation with daphne plus a classical plural ending -i. This form appears in older botanical texts and scientific nomenclature.
This old plural form shows how scientific naming evolved—early botanists mixed Latin and Greek rules in wild ways, creating words like daphni that even their contemporaries found confusing!
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