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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Acorus

calamus
sweetflag

Hierarchical position of the Genus Acorus

   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  Aridae Takht.
pub. 1997
  
   SuperOrdo  Acoranae Reveal
pub. Phytologia 82: 129. 28 Nov 1997.
  
   Ordo  Acorales Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 72. 29 Apr 1996.
  
   Familia  Acoraceae Martynov
pub. Tekhno-Bot. Slovar: 6. 1820.
  
   Subfamilia  Acoroideae Link
pub. Handbuch 1: 144. Jan-Aug 1829.
  
   Tribus  Acoreae (Martynov) T. Nees & C.H. Eberm.
pub. Handb. Med.-Pharm. Bot. 1: 105. Apr 1830.
  
   Subtribus  Acorinae (Martynov) Kitt. in A. Rich.
pub. Nouv. El�m. Bot., ed. 3, Germ. transl.: 708. 1840.
  
   Genus  Acorus L.
pub. (1753)
common name: sweetflag
  

Named members of the Genus Acorus

1
   Species  americanus (Raf.) Raf.
common name: sweetflag
2
   Species  calamus L.
common name: calamus, bacc  (Hindi), sweetflag
  
 
3
   Varietas  americanus (Raf.) H.D. Wulff.
syn. Acorus americanus

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.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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