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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Hosta

Hierarchical position of the Genus Hosta

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  Agavales Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 14, 149. 1934.       Familia  Hostaceae B. Mathew pub. Kew Bull. 43: 302. Jun 1988.       Genus  Hosta Tratt. pub. (1812) common name: plantain lily

Named members of the Genus Hosta

1	Species  japonica (Houtt.) Voss, non Tratt. syn. Hosta lancifolia
2	Species  lancifolia Engl. common name: narrowleaf plantain lily
3	Species  plantaginea (Lam.) Aschers. common name: fragrant plantain lily
4	Species  ventricosa (Salisb.) Stearn common name: blue plantain 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.