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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Petunia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Petunia

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  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Solananae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Solanales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 20. 1829. common name: Polemoniales       Subordo  Solanineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 180. Mai 1898.       Familia  Solanaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 124. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Potatos, tomato, peppers       Tribus  Petunieae Horan. pub. Char. Ess. Fam.: 123. 1847.       Genus  Petunia Juss. pub. (1803) common name: petunia

Named members of the Genus Petunia

1	Species  axillaris (Lam.) B.S.P. common name: large white petunia
2	Species  integrifolia (Hook.) Schinz & Thellung common name: violet flower petunia
3	Species  parviflora Juss. syn. Calibrachoa parviflora
4	Species  violacea Lindl. syn. Petunia integrifolia
5	Species  x atkinsiana D. Don ex Loud.
6	Species  x hybrida Vilm. syn. Petunia �atkinsiana common name: petunia

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.