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[ Hedycaryopsis ] [ Hedychium ] [ Hedycrea ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Hedychium

Hierarchical position of the Genus Hedychium

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  Zingiberidae Cronquist pub. 1978       SuperOrdo  Zingiberanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.       Ordo  Zingiberales Griseb. pub. Grundr. Syst. Bot.: 167. Jan-Jun 1854.       Familia  Zingiberaceae Lindl. pub. Key Bot.: 69. 15-30 Sep 1835, nom. cons. common name: Gingers       Subfamilia  Hedychioideae Horan. ex Leurss. pub. Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 452. Jan 1880.       Tribus  Hedychieae Petersen in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. II, 6: 18. Oct 1888.       Genus  Hedychium J. K�nig pub. (1783) common name: garland lily

Named members of the Genus Hedychium

1	Species  coronarium Koenig common name: white garland lily
2	Species  flavescens Carey ex Roscoe common name: cream garland lily
3	Species  flavum auct. non Roxb. syn. Hedychium flavescens
4	Species  gardnerianum Shepard ex Ker-Gawl. common name: Kahila garland lily

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.