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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Smilax

Hierarchical position of the Genus Smilax

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  Smilacales Lindl. pub. Nix. Pl.: 23. 17 Sep 1833.       Familia  Smilacaceae Vent. pub. Tabl. R�gne V�g. 2: 146. 5 Mai 1799. common name: Green-briers       Subfamilia  Smilacoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 205. Mai 1831.       Tribus  Smilaceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 60. 1829.       Genus  Smilax L. pub. (1753) common name: greenbrier, sarsaparilla

Named members of the Genus Smilax

1	Species  aristolochiifolia Miller common name: sarsaparilla
2	Species  auriculata Walt. common name: earleaf greenbrier
3	Species  biltmoreana (Small) J.B.S. Norton ex Pennell common name: Biltmore's carrionflower
4	Species  bona-nox L.
	5    Varietas  exauriculata Fern. syn. Smilax bona-nox 6    Varietas  hastata (Willd.) A. DC. syn. Smilax bona-nox 7    Varietas  hederifolia (Bey.) Fern. syn. Smilax bona-nox
8	Species  californica (A. DC.) Gray common name: California greenbrier
9	Species  china L. common name: China root
10	Species  coriacea Spreng. common name: Everglades greenbrier
11	Species  domingensis Willd. syn. Smilax smallii
12	Species  ecirrata (Engelm. ex Kunth) S. Wats.
	13    Varietas  biltmoreana (Small) Ahles syn. Smilax biltmoreana 14    Varietas  hugeri (Small) Ahles syn. Smilax hugeri
15	Species  glauca Walt.
	16    Varietas  genuina Blake syn. Smilax glauca 17    Varietas  leurophylla Blake syn. Smilax glauca
18	Species  havanensis auct. non Jacq. syn. Smilax coriacea
19	Species  herbacea L. common name: carrion vine
	20    Varietas  lasioneura (Hook.) A. DC. syn. Smilax lasioneura 21    Varietas  pulverulenta (Michx.) Gray syn. Smilax pulverulenta
22	Species  hispida Muhl. ex Torr.
	23    Varietas  australis Small syn. Smilax tamnoides 24    Varietas  montana Coker syn. Smilax tamnoides
25	Species  hugeri (Small) J.B.S. Norton ex Pennell common name: Huger's carrionflower
26	Species  illinoensis Mangaly common name: Illinois greenbrier
27	Species  jamesii G. Wallace common name: English Peak greenbrier
28	Species  lanceolata L. syn. Smilax smallii
29	Species  lasioneura Hook. common name: Blue Ridge carrionflower
30	Species  laurifolia L. common name: laurel greenbrier
31	Species  leptanthera Pennell syn. Smilax pseudochina
32	Species  megacarpa Morong p.p. syn. Smilax laurifolia
33	Species  melastomifolia Sm.
	34    Varietas  subinermis Hbd. syn. Smilax melastomifolia
35	Species  pseudochina L. common name: bamboo vine
36	Species  pulverulenta Michx. common name: downy carrionflower
37	Species  pumila Walt. common name: sarsparilla vine
38	Species  regelii Killip & Morton common name: Jamaican sarsaparilla
39	Species  renifolia Small common name: kidneyleaf greenbrier
40	Species  rotundifolia L.
	41    Varietas  crenulata Small & Heller syn. Smilax rotundifolia 42    Varietas  quadrangularis (Muhl. ex Willd.) Wood syn. Smilax rotundifolia
43	Species  sandwicensis Kunth
	44    Varietas  crassifolia Hbd. syn. Smilax melastomifolia
45	Species  smallii Morong common name: lanceleaf greenbrier
46	Species  tamnifolia Michx. syn. Smilax pseudochina
47	Species  tamnoides L.
	48    Varietas  hispida (Muhl. ex Torr.) Fern. syn. Smilax tamnoides
49	Species  walteri Pursh common name: coral greenbrier

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

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