Verbascum
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Verbascum

candlewick plant
flannel plant
mullein
velvet plant

Hierarchical position of the Genus Verbascum

   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
  
   Subfamilia  Verbascoideae Kostel.
pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 3: 874. Apr-Dec 1834.
  
   Tribus  Verbasceae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 24. 1829.
  
   Genus  Verbascum L.
pub. (1753)
common name: mullein
  

Named members of the Genus Verbascum

1
   Species  blattaria L.
common name: moth mullein, flannel plant, candlewick plant, velvet plant
  
2
   Species  densiflorum Bertol.
common name: denseflower mullein
3
   Species  lychnitis L.
common name: white mullein
4
   Species  nigrum L.
common name: black mullein
5
   Species  phlomoides L.
common name: orange mullein, woolly mullein
  
6
   Species  phoeniceum L.
common name: purple mullein
7
   Species  sinuatum L.
common name: wavyleaf mullein
8
   Species  speciosum Schrad.
common name: showy mullein
9
   Species  thapsiforme Schrad.
syn. Verbascum densiflorum
10
   Species  thapsus L.
common name: flannel plant, candlewick plant, velvet plant, flannel mullein
  
11
   Species  virgatum Stokes
common name: wand mullein
12
   Species  x kerneri Fritsch
13
   Species  x pterocaulon Franch.
14
   Species  x spurium K. Koch

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.

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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