different between astrophyllite vs asterophyllite

English

From Ancient Greek ????? (ast?r, “star”) + ?????? (phúllon, “leaf”) +? -ite.

astrophyllite (countable and uncountable, plural astrophyllites)

(mineralogy) A rare, brown to golden-yellow hydrous potassium iron titanium silicate mineral, visually identical to kupletskite.

Ancient Greek, meaning "star leaf".

asterophyllite (plural asterophyllites)

(paleontology) A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

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