Bacopa
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Bacopa

herb of grace
water hyssop
waterhyssop

Hierarchical position of the Genus Bacopa

   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  Scrophulariaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 117. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Figworts
  
   Genus  Bacopa Aubl.
common name: waterhyssop
  

Named members of the Genus Bacopa

1
   Species  acuminata (Walt.) B.L. Robins.
 
2
   Varietas  microphylla (Raf.) Fern.
syn. Mecardonia acuminata var. microphylla
3
   Species  caroliniana (Walt.) B.L. Robins.
common name: blue waterhyssop
4
   Species  cyclophylla Fern.
syn. Bacopa innominata
5
   Species  egensis (Poepp.) Pennell
common name: Brazilian waterhyssop
6
   Species  eisenii (Kellogg) Pennell
common name: Gila River waterhyssop
7
   Species  innominata (G. Maza) Alain
common name: tropical waterhyssop
8
   Species  monnieri (L.) Pennell
common name: herb of grace, brahmi  (Hindi), water hyssop
  
9
   Species  nobsiana Mason
syn. Bacopa rotundifolia
10
   Species  procumbens (Miller) Greenman
common name: waterhyssop
11
   Species  repens (Sw.) Wettst.
common name: creeping waterhyssop
12
   Species  rotundifolia (Michx.) Wettst.
common name: disk waterhyssop
13
   Species  simulans Fern.
syn. Bacopa rotundifolia
14
   Species  stragula Fern.
syn. Bacopa innominata
15
   Species  stricta (Schrad.) B.L. Robins.
common name: yerba de culebra  (Mexico)

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.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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