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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Panax

Hierarchical position of the Genus Panax

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  Aralianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 357. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Araliales Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 72. 29 Apr 1996.       Familia  Araliaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 217. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Ginsengs       Subfamilia  Panacoideae Leurss. pub. Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 788. Aug 1881.       Tribus  Panaceae Hook.f. in Le Maout & Decne. pub. General Syst. Bot.: 474. 25 Apr 1873.       Genus  Panax L. pub. (1753) common name: ginseng

Named members of the Genus Panax

1	Species  ginseng C. Meyer common name: Chinese ginseng, ren shen  (Chinese)
2	Species  pseudoginseng Wallich common name: ginseng
	3    Subspecies  japonicus (C. Meyer) H. Hara common name: Japanese ginseng 4    Subspecies  pseudoginseng common name: ginseng
5	Species  quinquefolius L. common name: American ginseng
6	Species  repens Maxim. syn. Panax pseudoginseng ssp. japonicus
7	Species  schinseng Nees syn. Panax ginseng common name: Asiatic ginseng
8	Species  trifolius L. common name: dwarf ginseng

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

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For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.