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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Melanthera

Hierarchical position of the Genus Melanthera

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  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Asteridae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Asteranae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 451. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Asterales Lindl. pub. 1833       Familia  Asteraceae Dumort. pub. Comment. Bot.: 55. Nov-Dec 1822. common name: Sunflowers       Familia  Compositae Giseke pub. Prael. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 538. Apr 1792, nom. cons.       Genus  Melanthera Rohr common name: squarestem

Named members of the Genus Melanthera

1	Species  angustifolia A. Rich. common name: Everglades squarestem
2	Species  aspera (Jacq.) Steud. ex Small
	3    Varietas  aspera common name: yerba de cabra  (Mexico) 4    Varietas  glabriuscula (Kuntze) J.C. Parks common name: yerba de cabra  (Mexico)
5	Species  calcicola Britt. syn. Melanthera aspera var. glabriuscula
6	Species  canescens (Kuntze) O.E. Schulz syn. Melanthera aspera var. aspera
7	Species  carpenteri Small syn. Melanthera nivea
8	Species  confusa Britt. syn. Melanthera aspera var. glabriuscula
9	Species  deltoidea Michx. syn. Melanthera aspera var. aspera
10	Species  hastata Michx. syn. Melanthera nivea
11	Species  ligulata Small common name: pineland squarestem
12	Species  montana O.E. Schulz syn. Melanthera aspera var. aspera
13	Species  nivea (L.) Small common name: snow squarestem
14	Species  parvifolia Small common name: small-leaf squarestem
15	Species  radiata Small syn. Melanthera parvifolia

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.