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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Pterocaulon

Hierarchical position of the Genus Pterocaulon

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  Asteridae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Asteranae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 451. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Asterales Lindl. pub. 1833       Familia  Asteraceae Dumort. pub. Comment. Bot.: 55. Nov-Dec 1822. common name: Sunflowers       Familia  Compositae Giseke pub. Prael. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 538. Apr 1792, nom. cons.       Genus  Pterocaulon Elliott common name: blackroot

Named members of the Genus Pterocaulon

1	Species  alopecuroideum (Lam.) DC. syn. Pterocaulon virgatum
2	Species  pycnostachyum (Michx.) Ell. syn. Pterocaulon virgatum
3	Species  undulatum (Walt.) C. Mohr syn. Pterocaulon virgatum
4	Species  virgatum (L.) DC. common name: wand blackroot

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.