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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Callisia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Callisia

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  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Commelinanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 514. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Commelinales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 54. 1829.       Subordo  Commelinineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 87. Mai 1898.       Familia  Commelinaceae R. Br. pub. Prodr.: 268. 27 Mar 1810, nom. cons. common name: Spiderworts       Genus  Callisia Loefl. common name: roseling

Named members of the Genus Callisia

1	Species  cordifolia (Sw.) E.S. Anderson & Woods. common name: Florida roseling
2	Species  fragrans (Lindl.) Woods. common name: basketplant
3	Species  graminea (Small) G. Tucker common name: grassleaf roseling
4	Species  graminifolia (Raf.) D.R. Hunt syn. Callisia rosea
5	Species  micrantha (Torr.) D.R. Hunt common name: littleflower roseling
6	Species  monandra (Sw.) J.A. & J.H. Schultes common name: cojite morado  (Mexico)
7	Species  ornata (Small) G. Tucker common name: Florida scrub roseling
8	Species  repens (Jacq.) L. common name: creeping inchplant
9	Species  rosea (Vent.) D.R. Hunt common name: Piedmont roseling

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.