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[ Mommsenia ] [ Momordica ] [ Mona ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Momordica

Hierarchical position of the Genus Momordica

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  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Cucurbitanae Reveal pub. Phytologia 76: 4. 1994.       Ordo  Cucurbitales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 28. 1829.       Subordo  Cucurbitineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 190. Mai 1898.       Familia  Cucurbitaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 393. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons. common name: Cucumbers, Gourds, Watermelon       Subtribus  Momordicinae M. Roem. pub. Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 2: 6. Dec 1846.       Genus  Momordica L. pub. (1753) common name: momordica

Named members of the Genus Momordica

1	Species  balsamina L. common name: southern balsampear
2	Species  charantia L. common name: balsampear, cerasee
3	Species  cochinchinensis (Lour.) Sprengel common name: balsampear
4	Species  dioica Roxb. ex Willd. common name: balsampear
5	Species  elaterium L. syn. Ecballium elaterium
6	Species  lanata Thunb. syn. Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus

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.