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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Vallisneria

Hierarchical position of the Genus Vallisneria

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  Vallisnerioideae Luerss. pub. Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 308. Dec 1879.    Tribus  Vallisnerieae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 135. 1827.    Genus  Vallisneria L. pub. (1753) common name: eelgrass

Named members of the Genus Vallisneria

1	Species  americana Michx. common name: American eelgrass
2	Species  asiatica Michx. syn. Vallisneria americana
3	Species  gigantea Graebn. common name: eelgrass
4	Species  neotropicalis Victorin syn. Vallisneria americana
5	Species  spiralis L.
	6    Varietas  asiatica (Michx.) Torr. syn. Vallisneria americana

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.