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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Wolffia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Wolffia

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  Aridae Takht. pub. 1997       SuperOrdo  Aranae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.       Ordo  Arales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 65. 1829.       Familia  Araceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 23. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Arums       Subfamilia  Wolffioideae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 1: 78. Apr 1892.    Tribus  Wolffieae Hegelm. pub. Lemnac.: 121. Oct-Nov 1868.    Genus  Wolffia Horkel ex Schleid. pub. (1844)

Named members of the Genus Wolffia

1	Species  arrhiza (L.) Horkel ex C.F.H. Wimmer common name: spotless watermeal
2	Species  borealis (Engelm. ex Hegelm.) Landolt ex Landolt common name: northern watermeal
3	Species  brasiliensis Weddell common name: Brazilian watermeal
4	Species  columbiana Karst. common name: Columbian watermeal
5	Species  cylindracea Hegelm. syn. Wolffia globosa
6	Species  floridana (J.D. Sm.) J.D. Sm. ex Hegelm. syn. Wolffiella gladiata
7	Species  gladiata Hegelm.
	8    Varietas  floridana J.D. Sm. syn. Wolffiella gladiata
9	Species  globosa (Roxb.) Hartog & Plas common name: Asian watermeal
10	Species  Horkel ex Schleid. common name: watermeal
11	Species  lingulata Hegelm. syn. Wolffiella lingulata
12	Species  papulifera C.H. Thompson syn. Wolffia brasiliensis
13	Species  punctata Griseb. syn. Wolffia brasiliensis

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.