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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Crescentia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Crescentia

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  Bignoniaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 137. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Bignonias       Subfamilia  Crescentioideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl., ser. 2, 3: 939. Apr-Dec 1834.    Tribus  Crescentieae G. Don pub. Gen. Hist. 4: 216, 232. 1837-8 Apr 1838.    Subtribus  Crescentiinae Bojer ex A.DC. pub. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., s�r. 2, 11: 284, 285. 1839.    Genus  Crescentia L. pub. (1753) common name: crescentia

Named members of the Genus Crescentia

1	Species  alata Kunth common name: morrito
2	Species  cujete L. common name: common calabash tree
3	Species  linearifolia Miers common name: higuerito
4	Species  portoricensis Britt. common name: higuero de sierra  (Mexico)

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.