Melilotus
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Melilotus

clover
melilot
sourclover
sweetclover

Hierarchical position of the Genus Melilotus

   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  Rosidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Fabanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   Ordo  Fabales Bromhead
pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 126. Jul 1838.
common name: legumes
  
   Familia  Fabaceae Lindl.
pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 148. Jul 1836.
common name: Leguminosae
  
   Familia  Leguminosae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 345. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.
  
   Genus  Melilotus Mill.
common name: sweetclover
  

Named members of the Genus Melilotus

1
   Species  alba Medikus
common name: white sweet clover, bokara clover, melilot
  
2
   Species  albus Medik.
 
3
   Varietas  annuus Coe
syn. Melilotus officinalis
4
   Species  altissima Thuill.
common name: tall yellow sweetclover
5
   Species  altissimus Thuill.
common name: tall yellow sweetclover
6
   Species  gracilis DC.
syn. Melilotus neapolitanus
7
   Species  indica (L.) All.
common name: sourclover, sweet clover
  
8
   Species  indicus (L.) All.
common name: annual yellow sweetclover
9
   Species  neapolitanus Ten.
common name: European sweetclover
10
   Species  officinalis (L.) Lam.
common name: yellow sweetclover, melilot, bokara clover
  
11
   Species  suaveolens Ledeb.
common name: sweetclover
12
   Species  sulcatus Desf.
common name: Mediterranean sweetclover

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.

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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