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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Cladium

Hierarchical position of the Genus Cladium

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  Juncanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Cyperales Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 16, 193. 1934.       Familia  Cyperaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 26. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Sedges       Subfamilia  Cladioideae Lindl. ex Pfeiff. pub. Nomencl. Bot. 1(1): 769. Dec 1872.    Tribus  Cladieae Nees ex Fenzl in Endl. pub. Gen. Pl.: 114. Dec 1836.    Genus  Cladium P. Browne pub. (1756) common name: sawgrass

Named members of the Genus Cladium

1	Species  californicum (S. Wats.) O'Neill common name: California sawgrass
2	Species  colocasia (L.) W. Wight common name: malanga
3	Species  jamaicense Crantz syn. Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense
4	Species  leptostachyum Nees & Meyen syn. Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense
5	Species  mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr. common name: smooth sawgrass
6	Species  mariscus (L.) Pohl
	7    Varietas  californicum S. Wats. syn. Cladium californicum 8    Subspecies  jamaicense (Crantz) K�kenth. common name: Jamaica swamp sawgrass
9	Species  restioides (Sw.) Benth. syn. Machaerina restioides

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.