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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Scabiosa

Hierarchical position of the Genus Scabiosa

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  Cornidae Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 76: 4. 1994.       SuperOrdo  Dipsacanae Takht. pub. Divers. Classif. Fl. Pl.: 396. 1 Mai 1997.       Ordo  Dipsacales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 29. 1829.       Familia  Dipsacaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 194. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Teasels       Subfamilia  Scabiosoideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 918. Jun 1835.       Tribus  Scabioseae DC. pub. Prodr. 4: 645. late Sep 1830.       Genus  Scabiosa L. pub. (1753) common name: pincushions

Named members of the Genus Scabiosa

1	Species  arvensis L. syn. Knautia arvensis
2	Species  atropurpurea L. common name: pincushion flower, sweet scabious, mournful widow, Egyptian rose, sweet scabiosa, mourning bride
3	Species  australis Wulfen syn. Succisella inflexa
4	Species  caucasica M. Bieb. common name: Caucasian pincushion flower
5	Species  columbaria L. common name: dove pincushions
6	Species  ochroleuca L. common name: cream pincushions
7	Species  palaestrina L. common name: Balkan pincushions
8	Species  stellata L. common name: starflower pincushions, paper moon
9	Species  succisa L. syn. Succisa pratensis

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.