Holcus
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Holcus

creeping velvetgrass
velvet grass

Hierarchical position of the Genus Holcus

   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  Poales Small
pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.
  
   Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh.
pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons.
common name: Gramineae
  
   Tribus  Holceae J. Presl
pub. Wsobecny Rostl. 2: 1709, 1742. 1846.
  
   Genus  Holcus L.
pub. (1753)
common name: velvetgrass
  

Named members of the Genus Holcus

1
   Species  bicolor L.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
2
   Species  halepensis L.
syn. Sorghum halepense
3
   Species  lanatus L.
common name: velvet grass
  
4
   Species  mollis L.
common name: creeping velvetgrass
  
5
   Species  odoratus L.
syn. Hierochloe odorata
6
   Species  pertusus L.
syn. Bothriochloa pertusa
7
   Species  sorghum L.
syn. Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor
8
   Species  striatus L.
syn. Sacciolepis striata

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.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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