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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Dianthus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Dianthus

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  Caryophyllidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 144. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Caryophyllanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 144. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Caryophyllales Perleb pub. 1826       Subordo  Caryophyllineae Bessey in C.K. Adams pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 461. 15 Nov 1895.       Familia  Caryophyllaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 299. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Pinks       Tribus  Diantheae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 49. 1829.       Subtribus  Dianthinae (Rchb.) Kitt. in A. Rich. pub. Nouv. El�m. Bot., ed. 3, Germ. transl.: 910. 1840.       Genus  Dianthus L. pub. (1753) common name: pink

Named members of the Genus Dianthus

1	Species  armeria L. common name: Deptford pink
2	Species  atrorubens All. syn. Dianthus carthusianorum
3	Species  barbatus L. common name: sweet William catchfly
4	Species  carthusianorum L. common name: clusterhead
5	Species  caryophyllus L. common name: clove gilliflower, wild carnation
6	Species  deltoides L. common name: maiden pink
7	Species  fragrans M.F. Adams common name: fragrant pink
8	Species  plumarius L. common name: feathered pink, grass pink
9	Species  prolifer L. syn. Petrorhagia prolifera
10	Species  repens Willd. common name: boreal carnation
11	Species  sylvestris Wulfen common name: woodland pink
12	Species  velutinus Guss. syn. Petrorhagia dubia

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.