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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Polystachya

Hierarchical position of the Genus Polystachya

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  Orchidales Raf. pub. Anal. Nat.: 197. Apr-Jul 1815.       Subordo  Orchidineae Rchb. pub. Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: xxxviii. Jul 1841.       Familia  Orchidaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 64. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Orchids       Tribus  Polystachyeae Pfitzer pub. Entwurf. Anordn. Orch.: 100. Jan-Apr 1887.    Genus  Polystachya Hook. pub. (1824) common name: yellowspike orchid

Named members of the Genus Polystachya

1	Species  cerea Lindl. syn. Polystachya foliosa
2	Species  concreta (Jacq.) Garay & Sweet common name: greater yellowspike orchid
3	Species  extinctoria Reichenb. f. syn. Polystachya concreta
4	Species  flavescens (Lindl.) J.J. Sm. syn. Polystachya concreta
5	Species  foliosa (Lindl. ex Hook.) Reichenb. f. common name: lesser yellowspike orchid
6	Species  luteola (Sw.) Hook. syn. Polystachya concreta
7	Species  minor Fawcett & Rendle syn. Polystachya foliosa
8	Species  minuta (Aubl.) Britt. syn. Polystachya concreta

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

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