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[ Viminaria ] [ Vinca ] [ Vincentella ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Vinca

Hierarchical position of the Genus Vinca

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Gentiananae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Apocynales Bromhead pub. 1838       Familia  Apocynaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 143. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Dogbanes       Tribus  Vinceae Duby pub. Bot. Gall. 1: 324. 12-14 Apr 1828.       Genus  Vinca L. pub. (1753) common name: periwinkle

Named members of the Genus Vinca

1	Species  herbacea Waldst. & Kit. common name: herbaceous periwinkle
2	Species  major L. common name: greater periwinkle
	3    Varietas  variegata Loud. syn. Vinca major
4	Species  minor L. common name: lesser periwinkle
5	Species  rosea L. syn. Catharanthus roseus common name: Madagascar periwinkle

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.