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[ Echinopogon ] [ Echinops ] [ Echinopsilon ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Echinops

Hierarchical position of the Genus Echinops

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  Asteridae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Asteranae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 451. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Asterales Lindl. pub. 1833       Familia  Asteraceae Dumort. pub. Comment. Bot.: 55. Nov-Dec 1822. common name: Sunflowers       Subfamilia  Echinopsoideae (Cass.) Lindl. in Loud. pub. Encycl. Pl.: 1074. 1829.       Tribus  Echinopseae Cass. pub. J. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. 88: 157. Feb 1819.       Subtribus  Echinopsinae (Cass.) Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 32. 1829.       Genus  Echinops L. pub. (1753) common name: globethistle

Named members of the Genus Echinops

1	Species  commutatus Juratzka syn. Echinops exaltatus
2	Species  exaltatus Schrad. common name: tall globethistle, Russian globethistle
3	Species  fruticosus L. syn. Rolandra fruticosa
4	Species  rito L. common name: globethistle
	5    Subspecies  ruthenicus (Bieb.) Nyman common name: southern globethistle
6	Species  ruthenicus Bieb. syn. Echinops rito ssp. ruthenicus
7	Species  sphaerocephalus L. common name: great globethistle

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.