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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Forsythia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Forsythia

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  Oleanae Takht. pub. Divers. Classif. Fl. Pl.: 449. 1 Mai 1997.       Ordo  Oleales Lindl. pub. Nix. Pl.: 19. 17 Sep 1833.       Subordo  Oleineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 170. Mai 1898.       Familia  Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link pub. Fl. Portug. 1: 385. 1813-1820. common name: Olives       Genus  Forsythia Vahl common name: forsythia

Named members of the Genus Forsythia

1	Species  ovata Nakai common name: early forsythia
2	Species  suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl common name: weeping forsythia, lian qiao  (Chinese)
3	Species  viridissima Lindl. common name: greenstem forsythia
4	Species  x intermedia Zabel common name: showy forsythia

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.