Acmella
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Acmella

maluco
spotflower

Hierarchical position of the Genus Acmella

   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  Asteridae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Asteranae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 451. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Asterales Lindl.
pub. 1833
  
   Familia  Asteraceae Dumort.
pub. Comment. Bot.: 55. Nov-Dec 1822.
common name: Sunflowers
  
   Familia  Compositae Giseke
pub. Prael. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 538. Apr 1792, nom. cons.
  
   Genus  Acmella Rich. ex Pers.
common name: spotflower

Named members of the Genus Acmella

1
   Species  decumbens (Sm.) R.K. Jansen
common name: creeping spotflower
2
   Species  iodiscaea (A.H. Moore) R.K. Jansen
common name: maluco
3
   Species  oppositifolia (Lam.) R.K. Jansen
 
4
   Varietas  repens (Walt.) R.K. Jansen
common name: oppositeleaf spotflower
5
   Species  pilosa R.K. Jansen
common name: hairy spotflower
6
   Species  pusilla (Hook. & Arn.) R.K. Jansen
common name: dwarf spotflower
7
   Species  repens (Walt.) L.C. Rich.
syn. Acmella oppositifolia var. repens

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 October 31, 2004   

 

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