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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Ornithogalum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Ornithogalum

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  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Amaryllidales Bromhead pub. 1840       Familia  Hyacinthaceae Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 48. 1786.       Subtribus  Ornithogalinae Caruel pub. Epit. Fl. Europ. 1: 42. Jan 1892.       Genus  Ornithogalum L. pub. (1753) common name: star of Bethlehem

Named members of the Genus Ornithogalum

1	Species  bivalve L. syn. Nothoscordum bivalve
2	Species  caudatum Ait. common name: false seaonion
3	Species  divaricatum Lindl. syn. Chlorogalum pomeridianum var. divaricatum
4	Species  fistulosum Ramond ex DC. nom. illeg. syn. Gagea fistulosa
5	Species  hirsutum L. syn. Hypoxis hirsuta
6	Species  ixioides Ait. f. syn. Triteleia ixioides ssp. ixioides
7	Species  nutans L. common name: drooping star of Bethlehem
8	Species  pyrenaicum L. common name: Pyrenees star of Bethlehem
9	Species  umbellatum L. common name: sleepydick, Star of Bethlehem

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.