Agapanthus
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Agapanthus

lily of the Nile

Hierarchical position of the Genus Agapanthus

   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  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn.
pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.
  
   SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Amaryllidales Bromhead
pub. 1840
  
   Familia  Alliaceae J. Agardh
pub. Theoria Syst. Pl.: 32. Apr-Sep 1858, nom. cons.
  
   Subfamilia  Agapanthoideae Endl.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 141. Dec 1836.
  
   Tribus  Agapantheae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 61. 1829.
  
   Subtribus  Agapanthinae Benth. & Hook.f.
pub. Gen. Pl. 3: 750, 756. 14 Apr 1883.
  
   Genus  Agapanthus L'H�r.
pub. (1789)
common name: agapanthus
  

Named members of the Genus Agapanthus

1
   Species  africanus (L.) Hoffsgg.
common name: lily of the Nile
  
2
   Species  umbellatus L'Her.
syn. Agapanthus africanus

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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