Heteranthera
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Heteranthera

mudplantain

Hierarchical position of the Genus Heteranthera

   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  Heteranthera Ruiz & Pav.
pub. (1794)

Named members of the Genus Heteranthera

1
   Species  dubia (Jacq.) MacM.
common name: grassleaf mudplantain
2
   Species  graminea (Michx.) Vahl
syn. Heteranthera dubia
3
   Species  liebmannii (Buch. ex Magnus) Shinners
syn. Heteranthera dubia
4
   Species  limosa (Sw.) Willd.
common name: blue mudplantain
5
   Species  mexicana S. Wats.
common name: Mexican mudplantain
6
   Species  multiflora (Griseb.) Horn
common name: bouquet mudplantain
7
   Species  peduncularis Benth.
common name: egret mudplantain
8
   Species  reniformis Ruiz & Pav�n
 
9
   Varietas  multiflora Griseb.
syn. Heteranthera multiflora
10
   Species  rotundifolia (Kunth) Griseb.
common name: roundleaf mudplantain
11
   Species  Ruiz & Pav�n
common name: mudplantain

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.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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