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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Gahnia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Gahnia

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  Juncanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Cyperales Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 16, 193. 1934.       Familia  Cyperaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 26. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Sedges       Tribus  Gahnieae Pax in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. II, 2: 105, 117. Jan 1888.    Subtribus  Gahniinae Pax pub. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 7: 308. 28 Mai 1886.    Genus  Gahnia J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. pub. (1775) common name: sawsedge

Named members of the Genus Gahnia

1	Species  aspera Spreng.
	2    Subspecies  globosa (Mann) J. Kern common name: round sawsedge
3	Species  beecheyi Mann common name: forest sawsedge
4	Species  gahniiformis (Gaud.) Heller common name: Gaudichaud's sawsedge
5	Species  globosa Mann syn. Gahnia aspera ssp. globosa
6	Species  kauaiensis Benl syn. Gahnia vitiensis ssp. kauaiensis
7	Species  lanaiensis O.& I. Deg. & J. Kern common name: Lanai sawsedge
8	Species  vitiensis Rendle
	9    Subspecies  kauaiensis (Benl) T. Koyama common name: Kauai sawsedge

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.