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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Eichhornia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Eichhornia

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  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Pontederianae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Pontederiales Hook.f. in Le Maout & Decne. pub. General Syst. Bot.: 1021. 25 Apr 1873       Subordo  Pontederiineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 87. Mai 1898.       Familia  Pontederiaceae Kunth in Humb. pub. Bonpl. & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: fol. 211, qu. 265. 1816. common name: Water-hyacinth       Genus  Eichhornia Kunth common name: water hyacinth

Named members of the Genus Eichhornia

1	Species  azurea (Sw.) Kunth common name: anchored water hyacinth
2	Species  crassipes (Mart.) Solms common name: common water hyacinth
3	Species  diversifolia (Vahl) Urban common name: variableleaf water hyacinth
4	Species  paniculata (Spreng.) Solms common name: Brazilian water hyacinth
5	Species  speciosa Kunth syn. Eichhornia crassipes

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.