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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Saccharum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Saccharum

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  Juncanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Poales Small pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.       Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh. pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons. common name: Gramineae       Subfamilia  Saccharoideae (Rchb.) Horan. pub. Char. Ess. Fam.: 34. 1847.       Tribus  Sacchareae Dumort. pub. Observ. Gramin. Belg.: 83. Jul-Sep 1824.       Subtribus  Saccharinae Griseb. pub. Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 472. Jan 1846.       Genus  Saccharum L. pub. (1753) common name: sugarcane

Named members of the Genus Saccharum

1	Species  alopecuroidum (L.) Nutt. common name: silver plumegrass
2	Species  baldwinii Spreng. common name: narrow plumegrass
3	Species  bengalense Retz. common name: Munj sweetcane
4	Species  brevibarbe (Michx.) Pers.
	5    Varietas  brevibarbe common name: shortbeard plumegrass 6    Varietas  contortum (Ell.) R. Webster common name: sortbeard plumegrass
7	Species  ciliare Anderss. syn. Saccharum bengalense
8	Species  coarctatum (Fern.) R. Webster common name: compressed plumegrass
9	Species  contortum (Ell.) Nutt. syn. Saccharum brevibarbe var. contortum
10	Species  contractum Kunth syn. Imperata contracta
11	Species  giganteum (Walt.) Pers. common name: sugarcane plumegrass
12	Species  officinarum L. common name: sugarcane
13	Species  pappiferum Lam. syn. Pappophorum pappiferum
14	Species  ravennae (L.) L. common name: ravennagrass
15	Species  repens Willd. syn. Melinis repens
16	Species  robustum Brandes & Jesw. ex Grassl common name: robust cane
17	Species  sagittatum Aubl. syn. Gynerium sagittatum
18	Species  spontaneum L. common name: wild sugarcane
19	Species  strictum (Ell.) Ell. ex Nutt. syn. Saccharum baldwinii

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.