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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Avicennia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Avicennia

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  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Lamianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Lamiales Bromhead pub. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 2: 210. Apr 1838.       Familia  Avicenniaceae Endl. pub. Ench. Bot.: 314. 15-21 Aug 1841.    Subfamilia  Avicennioideae Miers pub. London J. Bot. 7: 58. 1848.    Tribus  Avicennieae Benth. pub. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 2: 450. Feb 1839.    Genus  Avicennia L. pub. (1753) common name: mangrove

Named members of the Genus Avicennia

1	Species  africana P. Beauv. common name: black mangrove
2	Species  germinans (L.) L. common name: black mangrove
3	Species  marina (Forsk.) Vierh.
	4    Varietas  resinifera (G. Forst.) Bakh. common name: gray mangrove
5	Species  nitida Jacq. syn. Avicennia germinans

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.