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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Alsophila

Hierarchical position of the Genus Alsophila

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Polypodiophyta Cronquist syn. Filicinophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966. common name: ferns       Subdivisio  Polypodiophytina Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.       Classis  Polypodiopsida Cronquist pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966.       Subclassis  Polypodiidae Cronquist pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966.       Ordo  Cyatheales A.B. Frank in Leunis pub. Syn. Pflanzenk., ed. 2, 3: 1453. 1877.       Subordo  Cyatheineae Bessey pub. Bot. High Schools: 376. Mai-Sep 1880.       Familia  Cyatheaceae Kaulf. pub. Wesen Farrenkr.: [119]. Jul-Sep 1827. common name: Cyatheaes    Tribus  Alsophileae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 60. Mai 1898.    Subtribus  Alsophilinae (F�e) Pfeiff. pub. Nomencl. Bot. 1(1): 123. 16 Feb 1872.    Genus  Alsophila R. Br. pub. (1810) common name: alsophila

Named members of the Genus Alsophila

1	Species  amintae Conant common name: forest alsophila
2	Species  aquilina Christ syn. Cyathea parvula
3	Species  boringuena Maxon syn. Cyathea borinquena
4	Species  brooksii (Maxon) R. Tryon common name: Brooks' alsophila
5	Species  bryophila R. Tryon common name: helecho gigante de la sierra  (Mexico)
6	Species  dryopteroides (Maxon) R. Tryon syn. Alsophila amintae
7	Species  portoricensis (Spreng. ex Kuhn) Conant common name: Puerto Rico alsophila
8	Species  procera (Willd.) Desv. syn. Cyathea pungens
9	Species  quadripinnata (Gmel.) C. Christens. syn. Lophosoria quadripinnata

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.