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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Asparagus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Asparagus

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  Asparagales Bromhead pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 132. Jul 1838.       Familia  Asparagaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 40. 4 Aug 1789.       Subfamilia  Asparagoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 205. Mai 1831.       Tribus  Asparageae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 138. 1827.       Subtribus  Asparaginae Benth. pub. Fl. Austral. 7: 4. 23-30 Mar 1878.       Genus  Asparagus L. pub. (1753) common name: asparagus

Named members of the Genus Asparagus

1	Species  africanus Lam. common name: African asparagus
2	Species  asparagoides (L.) Druce common name: African asparagus fern
3	Species  densiflorus (Kunth) Jessop common name: Sprenger's asparagus fern
4	Species  officinalis L. common name: asparagus
5	Species  plumosus Baker syn. Asparagus setaceus
6	Species  setaceus (Kunth) Jessop common name: common asparagus fern
7	Species  sprengeri Regel syn. Asparagus densiflorus

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.