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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Nyssa

Hierarchical position of the Genus Nyssa

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  Cornidae Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 76: 4. 1994.       SuperOrdo  Cornanae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 71. 29 Apr 1996.       Ordo  Cornales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 33. 1829.       Familia  Nyssaceae Juss. ex Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 13. 1829, nom. cons.       Subfamilia  Nyssoideae (Juss. ex Dumort.) Arn. pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 128. 9 Mar 1832.       Tribus  Nysseae (Juss. ex Dumort.) Spach pub. Hist. Nat. V�g. 10: 461. 20 Mar 1841.       Genus  Nyssa L. pub. (1753) common name: tupelo

Named members of the Genus Nyssa

1	Species  acuminata Small syn. Nyssa ogeche
2	Species  aquatica L. common name: water tupelo
3	Species  biflora Walt. common name: swamp tupelo
4	Species  ogeche Bartr. ex Marsh. common name: Ogeechee tupelo
5	Species  sylvatica Marsh. common name: tupelo
	6    Varietas  biflora (Walt.) Sarg. syn. Nyssa biflora 7    Varietas  caroliniana (Poir.) Fern. syn. Nyssa sylvatica 8    Varietas  dilatata Fern. syn. Nyssa sylvatica 9    Varietas  typica Fern. syn. Nyssa sylvatica 10    Varietas  ursina (Small) Wen & Stuessy syn. Nyssa ursina
11	Species  uniflora Wangenh. syn. Nyssa aquatica
12	Species  ursina Small common name: bear tupelo

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.