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[ Holcosorus ] [ Holcus ] [ Holigarna ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Holcus

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.