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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Alyssum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Alyssum

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  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Capparanae Reveal pub. Phytologia 76: 3. 1994.       Ordo  Capparales Hutch. pub. Bull. Misc. Inform. 1924: 122. 29 Mai 1924.       Subordo  Capparineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 121. Mai 1898.       Familia  Brassicaceae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 854, 1093, 1123. Jun 1835, nom. cons. common name: Cruciferae       Subfamilia  Alyssoideae Leurss. pub. Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 614, 617. Nov 1880.       Tribus  Alysseae DC. pub. M�m. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7(1): 231. 20 Apr 1821.       Subtribus  Alyssinae Sond. in Harv. & Sond. pub. Fl. Cap. 1: 23. 10-31 Mai 1860.       Genus  Alyssum L. pub. (1753) common name: madwort

Named members of the Genus Alyssum

1	Species  alyssoides (L.) L. common name: pale madwort
2	Species  americanum Greene syn. Alyssum obovatum
3	Species  calycinum L. syn. Alyssum alyssoides
4	Species  desertorum Stapf
	5    Varietas  desertorum common name: desert madwort 6    Varietas  himalayensis Dudley common name: desert madwort
7	Species  incanum L. syn. Berteroa incana
8	Species  maritimum (L.) Lam. syn. Lobularia maritima common name: sweet alyssum
9	Species  minus (L.) Rothm.
	10    Varietas  micranthum (C.A. Mey.) Dudley common name: alyssum 11    Varietas  strigosum (Banks & Soland.) Zohary common name: alyssum
12	Species  murale Waldst. & Kit. common name: yellowtuft
13	Species  mutabile Vent. syn. Berteroa mutabilis
14	Species  obovatum (C.A. Mey.) Turcz. common name: American madwort
15	Species  parviflorum Fisch. ex Bieb.
	16    Varietas  micranthum (C.A. Mey.) Dorn syn. Alyssum minus var. micranthum
17	Species  petraeum Ard. syn. Aurinia petraea
18	Species  saxatile L. syn. Aurinia saxatilis
19	Species  strigosum Banks & Soland. syn. Alyssum minus var. strigosum
20	Species  szovitsianum Fisch. & C.A. Mey. common name: Szowits' madwort
21	Species  turkestanicum auct. non Regel & Schmalh. syn. Alyssum desertorum var. desertorum

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.