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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Spirodela

Hierarchical position of the Genus Spirodela

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  Aridae Takht. pub. 1997       SuperOrdo  Aranae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.       Ordo  Arales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 65. 1829.       Familia  Araceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 23. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Arums       Genus  Spirodela Schleid. common name: duckmeat

Named members of the Genus Spirodela

1	Species  intermedia Koch common name: intermediate duckweed
2	Species  oligorrhiza (Kurz) Hegelm. syn. Spirodela punctata
3	Species  polyrhiza (L.) Schleiden common name: giant duckweed
4	Species  polyrrhiza (L.) Schleid.
	5    Varietas  masonii Daubs syn. Spirodela polyrrhiza
6	Species  punctata (G.F.W. Mey.) C.H. Thompson common name: dotted duckmeat

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.