Callisia
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Callisia

basketplant
creeping inchplant
roseling

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.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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