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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Galanthus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Galanthus

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  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Amaryllidales Bromhead pub. 1840       Familia  Amaryllidaceae J. St.-Hil. pub. Expos. Fam. Nat. 1: 134. Feb-Apr 1805.       Subfamilia  Galanthoideae Herb. pub. Amaryllidaceae: 48, 63, 80, 329. late Apr 1837.       Tribus  Galantheae (Herb.) Parl. pub. Fl. Ital. 3: 75. 1858.       Subtribus  Galanthinae Pax in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. II, 5: 102, 105. Sep 1887.       Genus  Galanthus L. pub. (1753) common name: snowdrop

Named members of the Genus Galanthus

1	Species  elewesii Hook. f. common name: giant snowdrop
2	Species  nivalis L. common name: snowdrop

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.