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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Kyllinga

Hierarchical position of the Genus Kyllinga

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  Cyperales Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 16, 193. 1934.       Familia  Cyperaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 26. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Sedges       Genus  Kyllinga Rottb. common name: spikesedge

Named members of the Genus Kyllinga

1	Species  brevifolia Rottb. common name: shortleaf spikesedge
2	Species  brevifolioides (Thieret & Delahoussaye) G. Tucker syn. Kyllinga gracillima
3	Species  gracillima Miq. common name: pasture spikesedge
4	Species  nemoralis (J.R. & G. Forst.) Dandy ex Hutchinson & common name: whitehead spikesedge
5	Species  odorata Vahl common name: fragrant spikesedge
6	Species  peruviana Lam. syn. Kyllinga tibialis
7	Species  pumila Michx. common name: low spikesedge
8	Species  pungens Link syn. Kyllinga vaginata
9	Species  sesquiflora Torr. syn. Kyllinga odorata
10	Species  squamulata Thonn. ex Vahl common name: Asian spikesedge
11	Species  tenuifolia Steud. syn. Kyllinga pumila
12	Species  tibialis Ledeb. common name: Peruvian spikesedge
13	Species  vaginata Lam. common name: Carribean island spikesedge

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.