Machaerina
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Machaerina

twigrush

Hierarchical position of the Genus Machaerina

   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  Machaerina Vahl
common name: twigrush

Named members of the Genus Machaerina

1
   Species  angustifolia (Gaud.) T. Koyama
common name: Polynesian twigrush
2
   Species  falcata (Nees) Koyama
common name: twigrush
3
   Species  gahniiformis (Gaud.) J. Kern
syn. Gahnia gahniiformis
4
   Species  mariscoides (Gaud.) J. Kern
 
5
   Subspecies  meyenii (Kunth) T. Koyama
common name: Meyen's twigrush
6
   Species  restioides (Sw.) Vahl
common name: forest twigrush

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 November 01, 2004   

 

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