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[ Xeronema ] [ Xerophyllum ] [ Xerophyta ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Xerophyllum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Xerophyllum

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  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Melanthiales R. Dahlgre ex Reveal pub. 1992       Familia  Xerophyllaceae Takht. pub. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 81(2): 86. Mai-Jun 1996.       Tribus  Xerophylleae S. Watson pub. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 225. 1879.       Genus  Xerophyllum Michx. pub. (1803) common name: beargrass

Named members of the Genus Xerophyllum

1	Species  asphodeloides (L.) Nutt. common name: eastern turkeybeard
2	Species  tenax (Pursh) Nutt. common name: common beargrass, squawgrass

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.