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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Pontederia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Pontederia

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  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Pontederianae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Pontederiales Hook.f. in Le Maout & Decne. pub. General Syst. Bot.: 1021. 25 Apr 1873       Subordo  Pontederiineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 87. Mai 1898.       Familia  Pontederiaceae Kunth in Humb. pub. Bonpl. & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: fol. 211, qu. 265. 1816. common name: Water-hyacinth       Subfamilia  Pontederoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 168. Mai 1831.       Tribus  Pontederieae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 61. 1829.       Genus  Pontederia L. pub. (1753) common name: pontederia

Named members of the Genus Pontederia

1	Species  cordata L. common name: pickerelweed
	2    Varietas  angustifolia (Pursh) Torr. & Ell. syn. Pontederia cordata 3    Varietas  lanceolata (Nutt.) Griseb. syn. Pontederia cordata 4    Varietas  lancifolia (Muhl. ex Ell.) Torr. syn. Pontederia cordata
5	Species  lanceolata Nutt. syn. Pontederia cordata
6	Species  limosa Sw. syn. Heteranthera limosa
7	Species  rotundifolia L. f. common name: tropical pickerelweed
8	Species  vaginalis Burm. f. syn. Monochoria vaginalis

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.