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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Aletris

Hierarchical position of the Genus Aletris

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  Nartheciales Reveal & Zomlefer pub. Novon 8: 176. 15 Jul 1998.       Familia  Nartheciaceae Fr. ex Bjurzon pub. Skand. V�xtfam.: 64. 1846.       Subfamilia  Aletridoideae Engl. in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. II, 5: 19. 26 Mar 1887.       Tribus  Aletrideae Kitt. in A. Rich. pub. Nouv. El�m. Bot., ed. 3, Germ. transl.: 737. 1840.       Genus  Aletris L. pub. (1753) common name: colicroot

Named members of the Genus Aletris

1	Species  aurea Walt. common name: golden colicroot
2	Species  bracteata Northrop common name: bracted colicroot
3	Species  farinosa L. common name: white colic root, star grass, true unicorn root
4	Species  japonica Houtt. syn. Hosta lancifolia
5	Species  lutea Small common name: yellow colicroot
6	Species  obovata Nash common name: southern colicroot
7	Species  x tottenii E.T. Br.

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.