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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Neptunia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Neptunia

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  Neptunia Lour. common name: puff

Named members of the Genus Neptunia

1	Species  floridana Small syn. Neptunia pubescens var. pubescens
2	Species  lutea (Leavenworth) Benth.
	3    Varietas  multipinnatifida B.L. Turner syn. Neptunia lutea
4	Species  oleracea Lour. syn. Neptunia prostrata
5	Species  palmeri Britt. & Rose syn. Neptunia pubescens var. microcarpa
6	Species  plena (L.) Benth. common name: water dead and awake
7	Species  prostrata (Lam.) Baill. common name: garden puff
8	Species  pubescens Benth.
	9    Varietas  floridana (Small) B.L. Turner syn. Neptunia pubescens var. pubescens 10    Varietas  lindheimeri (B.L. Robins.) B.L. Turner syn. Neptunia pubescens var. pubescens 11    Varietas  microcarpa (Rose) Windler common name: tropical puff 12    Varietas  pubescens common name: tropical puff

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.