Proserpinaca
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Proserpinaca

mermaidweed

Hierarchical position of the Genus Proserpinaca

   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  Rosidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Podostemanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.
  
   Ordo  Haloragales Bromhead
pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 24: 410. Apr 1838.
  
   Subordo  Haloragineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 162. Mai 1898.
  
   Familia  Haloragaceae R. Br. in Flinders
pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 549. 19 Jul 1814.
common name: water milfoils
  
   Genus  Proserpinaca L.
common name: mermaidweed

Named members of the Genus Proserpinaca

1
   Species  amblyogona (Fern.) Small
syn. Proserpinaca palustris var. amblyogona
2
   Species  intermedia Mackenzie
common name: intermediate mermaidweed
3
   Species  palustris L.
 
4
   Varietas  amblyogona Fern.
common name: marsh mermaidweed
5
   Varietas  crebra Fern. & Grisc.
common name: marsh mermaidweed
6
   Varietas  latifolia Schindl.
syn. Proserpinaca palustris var. palustris
7
   Varietas  palustris
common name: marsh mermaidweed
8
   Species  pectinata Lam.
common name: combleaf mermaidweed
9
   Species  platycarpa Small
syn. Proserpinaca palustris var. palustris

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

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

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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