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Vernacular names of plants within the Superorder Pontederianae

Hierarchical position of the Superorder Pontederianae

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  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Pontederianae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.

Named members of the Superorder Pontederianae

1	Ordo  Haemodorales Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 15, 163. 1934.
	2    Familia  Haemodoraceae R. Br. pub. Prodr.: 299. 27 Mar 1810, nom. cons.
3	Ordo  Philydrales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 62. 1829.
	4    Subordo  Philydrineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 87. Mai 1898.   5    Familia  Philydraceae Link pub. Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 5. 16 Mar-30 Jun 1821.
6	Ordo  Pontederiales Hook.f. in Le Maout & Decne. pub. General Syst. Bot.: 1021. 25 Apr 1873
	7    Subordo  Pontederiineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 87. Mai 1898.      8    Familia  Pontederiaceae Kunth in Humb. pub. Bonpl. & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: fol. 211, qu. 265. 1816. common name: Water-hyacinth

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.

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