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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Symphytum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Symphytum

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  Solananae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Solanales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 20. 1829. common name: Polemoniales       Subordo  Boraginineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 192. Mai 1898.       Familia  Boraginaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 128. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Borages       Tribus  Symphyteae D. Don pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 13: 239. Oct 1832.       Subtribus  Symphytinae (D. Don) G. Don in Sweet pub. Hort. Brit., ed. 3: 489. late 1839.       Genus  Symphytum L. pub. (1753) common name: comfrey

Named members of the Genus Symphytum

1	Species  asperrimum Donn ex Sims syn. Symphytum asperum
2	Species  asperum Lepechin common name: prickly comfrey
3	Species  officinale L. common name: comfrey, knitbone
	4    Subspecies  uliginosum (Kern.) Nyman syn. Symphytum officinale
5	Species  peregrinum auct. non Ledeb. syn. Symphytum �uplandicum
6	Species  tuberosum L. common name: tuberous comfrey
7	Species  uliginosum Kern. syn. Symphytum officinale
8	Species  x uplandicum Nyman (pro sp.) common name: Russian comfrey

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.