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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Sporobolus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Sporobolus

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       Subtribus  Sporobolinae Benth. pub. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 30. 24 Dec 1881.       Genus  Sporobolus R. Br. pub. (1810) common name: dropseed

Named members of the Genus Sporobolus

1	Species  africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay syn. Sporobolus indicus var. capensis
2	Species  airoides (Torr.) Torr. common name: dropseed
	3    Varietas  wrightii (Munro ex Scribn.) Gould syn. Sporobolus wrightii
4	Species  angustus Buckl. syn. Sporobolus indicus var. indicus
5	Species  argutus (Nees) Kunth syn. Sporobolus coromandelianus
6	Species  asper (Michx.) Kunth
	7    Varietas  canovirens (Nash) Shinners syn. Sporobolus clandestinus 8    Varietas  clandestinus (Biehler) Shinners syn. Sporobolus clandestinus 9    Varietas  drummondii (Trin.) Vasey syn. Sporobolus compositus var. drummondii 10    Varietas  hookeri (Trin.) Vasey syn. Sporobolus compositus var. compositus 11    Varietas  macer (Trin.) Shinners syn. Sporobolus compositus var. macer 12    Varietas  pilosus (Vasey) A.S. Hitchc. syn. Sporobolus compositus var. drummondii
13	Species  asperifolius (Nees & Meyen ex Trin.) Nees syn. Muhlenbergia asperifolia
14	Species  attenuatus Nash syn. Sporobolus compositus var. drummondii
15	Species  berterianus (Trin.) A.S. Hitchc. & Chase syn. Sporobolus indicus var. indicus
16	Species  buckleyi Vasey common name: Buckley's dropseed
17	Species  canovirens Nash syn. Sporobolus clandestinus
18	Species  clandestinus (Biehler) A.S. Hitchc.
	19    Varietas  canovirens (Nash) Steyermark & Kucera syn. Sporobolus clandestinus
20	Species  compositus (Poir.) Merr.
	21    Varietas  clandestinus (Biehler) J. Wipff & S.D. Jones syn. Sporobolus clandestinus 22    Varietas  compositus common name: composite dropseed 23    Varietas  drummondii (Trin.) Kartesz & Gandhi common name: Drummond's dropseed 24    Varietas  macer (Trin.) Kartesz & Gandhi common name: composite dropseed
25	Species  confusus auct. non (Fourn.) Vasey syn. Muhlenbergia minutissima
26	Species  contractus A.S. Hitchc. common name: spike dropseed
27	Species  coromandelianus (Retz.) Kunth common name: Madagascar dropseed
28	Species  cryptandrus (Torr.) Gray common name: sand dropseed
	29    Subspecies  fuscicola (Hook.) E.K. Jones & Fassett syn. Sporobolus cryptandrus 30    Varietas  fuscicola (Hook.) Pohl syn. Sporobolus cryptandrus 31    Varietas  occidentalis E.K. Jones & Fassett syn. Sporobolus cryptandrus 32    Varietas  strictus Scribn. syn. Sporobolus contractus
33	Species  cubensis A.S. Hitchc. common name: Cuban dropseed
34	Species  curtissii (Vasey ex Beal) Small ex Scribn. common name: Curtis' dropseed
35	Species  diander (Retz.) Beauv. common name: tussock dropseed
36	Species  domingensis (Trin.) Kunth common name: coral dropseed
37	Species  drummondii (Trin.) Vasey syn. Sporobolus compositus var. drummondii
38	Species  elongatus R. Br. common name: elongate dropseed
39	Species  fimbriatus (Trin.) Nees common name: fringed dropseed
40	Species  flexuosus (Thurb. ex Vasey) Rydb. common name: mesa dropseed
41	Species  floridanus Chapman common name: Florida dropseed
42	Species  giganteus Nash common name: giant dropseed
43	Species  gracilis (Trin.) Merr. syn. Sporobolus junceus
44	Species  heterolepis (Gray) Gray common name: northern prairie dropseed
45	Species  indicus (L.) R. Br.
	46    Varietas  capensis Engelm. common name: rat-tail grass 47    Varietas  indicus common name: smut grass 48    Varietas  pyramidalis (Beauv.) Veldkamp common name: West Indian dropseed
49	Species  interruptus Vasey common name: black dropseed
50	Species  jacquemontii Kunth syn. Sporobolus indicus var. pyramidalis
51	Species  junceus (Beauv.) Kunth common name: pineywoods dropseed
52	Species  longifolius (Torr.) Wood syn. Sporobolus clandestinus
53	Species  macer (Trin.) A.S. Hitchc. syn. Sporobolus compositus var. macer
54	Species  microspermus (Lag.) A. Hitchcock common name: dropseed
55	Species  muralis (Raddi) A.S. Hitchc. & Chase syn. Sporobolus tenuissimus
56	Species  nealleyi Vasey common name: gyp dropseed
57	Species  neglectus Nash
	58    Varietas  ozarkanus (Fern.) Steyermark & Kucera syn. Sporobolus vaginiflorus var. ozarkanus
59	Species  ozarkanus Fern. syn. Sporobolus vaginiflorus var. ozarkanus
60	Species  patens auct. non Swallen syn. Sporobolus coromandelianus
61	Species  piliferus (Trin.) Kunth common name: Barundi dropseed
62	Species  pilosus Vasey syn. Sporobolus compositus var. drummondii
63	Species  poiretii (Roemer & J.A. Schultes) A.S. Hitchc. syn. Sporobolus indicus var. indicus
64	Species  pulvinatus Swallen syn. Sporobolus coromandelianus
65	Species  purpurascens (Sw.) Hamilton common name: purple dropseed
66	Species  pyramidatus (Lam.) A.S. Hitchc. syn. Sporobolus coromandelianus
67	Species  ramulosus (Kunth) Kunth syn. Muhlenbergia ramulosa
68	Species  silveanus Swallen common name: Silveus' dropseed
69	Species  tenuissimus (Mart. ex Schrank) Kuntze common name: tropical dropseed
70	Species  teretifolius Harper common name: wireleaf dropseed
71	Species  texanus Vasey common name: Texas dropseed
72	Species  tharpii A.S. Hitchc. common name: Tharp's dropseed
73	Species  torreyanus (J.A. Schultes) Nash syn. Muhlenbergia torreyana
74	Species  uniflorus (Muhl.) Scribn. & Merr. syn. Muhlenbergia uniflora
75	Species  vaginiflorus (Torr. ex Gray) Wood
	76    Varietas  inaequalis Fern. syn. Sporobolus vaginiflorus var. vaginiflorus 77    Varietas  neglectus (Nash) Scribn. syn. Sporobolus neglectus 78    Varietas  ozarkanus (Fern.) Shinners common name: Ozark dropseed 79    Varietas  vaginiflorus common name: poverty dropseed
80	Species  virginicus (L.) Kunth common name: seashore dropseed
81	Species  wrightii Munro ex Scribn. common name: big sacaton

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.