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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Arum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Arum

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  Aranae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.       Ordo  Arales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 65. 1829.       Familia  Araceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 23. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Arums       Subfamilia  Aroideae Arn. pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 136. 9 Mar 1832.       Tribus  Areae R. Br. ex Duby pub. Bot. Gall. 1: 480. 12-14 Apr 1828.       Subtribus  Arinae Schott in Schott & Endl. pub. Melet. Bot.: 17. 1832.       Genus  Arum L. pub. (1753) common name: arum

Named members of the Genus Arum

1	Species  esculentum L. syn. Colocasia esculenta
2	Species  indicum Lour. syn. Alocasia macrorrhizos
3	Species  italicum P. Mill. common name: Italian lords and ladies
4	Species  maculatum L. common name: cuckoo pint

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.