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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Zinnia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Zinnia

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  Asteridae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Asteranae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 451. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Asterales Lindl. pub. 1833       Familia  Asteraceae Dumort. pub. Comment. Bot.: 55. Nov-Dec 1822. common name: Sunflowers       Subtribus  Zinniinae Benth. & Hook.f. pub. Gen. Pl. 2: 166, 193. 7-9 Apr 1873.       Genus  Zinnia L. pub. (1759) common name: zinnia

Named members of the Genus Zinnia

1	Species  acerosa (DC.) Gray common name: desert zinnia
2	Species  angustifolia Kunth common name: narrowlead zinnia
3	Species  anomala Gray common name: shortray zinnia
4	Species  elegans Jacq. syn. Zinnia violacea common name: zinnia
5	Species  grandiflora Nutt. common name: Rocky Mountain zinnia
6	Species  maritima Kunth
	7    Varietas  palmeri (Gray) B.L. Turner common name: Palmer's zinnia
8	Species  multiflora L. syn. Zinnia peruviana
9	Species  palmeri Gray syn. Zinnia maritima var. palmeri
10	Species  pauciflora L. syn. Zinnia peruviana
11	Species  peruviana (L.) L. common name: Peruvian zinnia
12	Species  pumila Gray syn. Zinnia acerosa
13	Species  violacea Cav. common name: elegant zinnia

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.