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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Striga

Hierarchical position of the Genus Striga

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  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Lamianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Lamiales Bromhead pub. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 2: 210. Apr 1838.       Familia  Scrophulariaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 117. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Figworts       Genus  Striga Lour. common name: witchweed

Named members of the Genus Striga

1	Species  asiatica (L.) Kuntze common name: Asiatic witchweed
2	Species  densiflora (Benth.) Benth. common name: denseflower witchweed
3	Species  gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke common name: cowpea witchweed
4	Species  hermonthica (Del.) Benth. common name: purple witchweed
5	Species  lutea Lour. syn. Striga asiatica

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.