Crescentia
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Crescentia

common calabash tree
higuerito
morrito

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.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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