Thalassia
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Thalassia

thalassia
turtlegrass

Hierarchical position of the Genus Thalassia

   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  Alismatidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 461. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Alismatanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 461. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Hydrocharitales Dumort.
pub. 1829
   Familia  Hydrocharitaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 67. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Waterweeds
   Subfamilia  Thalassioideae Aschers. & G�rcke in Engl. & Prantl
pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. II, 1: 247. Mar 1889.
   Tribus  Thalassieae Hook.f.
pub. Fl. Brit. India 5: 659. Dec 1888.
   Genus  Thalassia Banks & Sol. ex K.D. Koenig
pub. (1805)

Named members of the Genus Thalassia

1
   Species  Banks & Soland. ex Koenig
common name: thalassia
2
   Species  hemprichii Aschers.
common name: thalassia
3
   Species  testudinum Banks & Soland. ex Koenig
common name: turtlegrass

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.

 

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