Osmunda
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Osmunda

buckhorn
fern
fiddleheads

Hierarchical position of the Genus Osmunda

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Polypodiophyta Cronquist
syn. Filicinophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966.
common name: ferns
  
   Subdivisio  Polypodiophytina Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
  
   Classis  Polypodiopsida Cronquist
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966.
  
   Subclassis  Polypodiidae Cronquist
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966.
  
   Ordo  Osmundales Bromhead
pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 24: 408. Apr 1838.
  
   Subordo  Osmundineae Bessey
pub. Bot. High Schools: 377. Mai-Sep 1880.
  
   Familia  Osmundaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
pub. Prir. Rostlin: 272. 1820.
common name: Cinnamon Ferns
  
   Subfamilia  Osmundoideae R. Br. ex Sweet
pub. Hort. Brit.: 460. Sep-Oct 1826.
  
   Tribus  Osmundeae Hook. ex Duby
pub. Bot. Gall. 1: 536. 12-14 Apr 1828.
  
   Genus  Osmunda L.
pub. (1753)
common name: osmunda
  

Named members of the Genus Osmunda

1
   Species  adiantifolia L.
syn. Anemia adiantifolia
2
   Species  cinnamomea L.
common name: buckhorn, cinnamon fern, fiddleheads
  
 
3
   Varietas  cinnamomea
common name: cinnamon fern
4
   Varietas  frondosa Gray
syn. Osmunda cinnamomea var. cinnamomea
5
   Varietas  glandulosa Waters
common name: cinnamon fern
6
   Varietas  imbricata (Kunze) Milde
common name: cinnamon fern
7
   Species  claytoniana L.
common name: interrupted fern
  
8
   Species  hirsuta L.
syn. Anemia hirsuta
9
   Species  regalis L.
common name: royal fern
  
 
10
   Varietas  spectabilis (Willd.) Gray
common name: royal fern
11
   Species  spicant L.
syn. Blechnum spicant
12
   Species  x ruggii R. Tryon

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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