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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Cuphea

Hierarchical position of the Genus Cuphea

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  Rosidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Myrtanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 295. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Myrtales Rchb. pub. Bot. Damen: 475. 1828.       Familia  Lythraceae J. St.-Hil. pub. Expos. Fam. Nat. 2: 175. Feb-Apr 1805. common name: Loosestrife       Genus  Cuphea P.Browne common name: waxweed, false heather

Named members of the Genus Cuphea

1	Species  aspera Chapman common name: tropical waxweed
2	Species  carthagenensis (Jacq.) J.F. Macbr. common name: Colombian waxweed
3	Species  glutinosa Cham. & Schlecht. common name: sticky waxweed
4	Species  hyssopifolia Kunth common name: false heather
5	Species  ignea A. DC. common name: cigar flower
6	Species  micrantha Kunth common name: tinypetal waxweed
7	Species  parsonsia (L.) R. Br. ex Steud. common name: island waxweed
8	Species  petiolata (L.) Koehne syn. Cuphea viscosissima
9	Species  procumbens Ortega common name: creeping waxweed
10	Species  strigulosa Kunth common name: stiffhair waxweed
11	Species  viscosissima Jacq. common name: blue waxweed
12	Species  wrightii Gray
	13    Varietas  nematopetala Bacig. syn. Cuphea wrightii

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.