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Hierarchical position of the Genus Colocasia

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  Aridae Takht. pub. 1997       SuperOrdo  Aranae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.       Ordo  Arales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 65. 1829.       Familia  Araceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 23. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Arums       Subfamilia  Colocasioideae Engl. pub. Nova Acta Acad. Leopold-Carol. 39: 148. 1876.    Tribus  Colocasieae (Schott) Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: 13. 12 Aug 1843.    Subtribus  Colocasiinae Schott in Schott & Endl. pub. Melet. Bot.: 18. 1832.    Genus  Colocasia Ray ex Schott pub. (1832) common name: colocasia

Named members of the Genus Colocasia

1	Species  antiquorum Schott syn. Colocasia esculenta
2	Species  esculenta (L.) Schott
	3    Varietas  antiquorum (Schott) Hubbard & Rehd. syn. Colocasia esculenta 4    Varietas  aquatilis Hassk. syn. Colocasia esculenta
5	Species  indica (Lour.) Kunth syn. Alocasia macrorrhizos

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.