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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Zostera

Hierarchical position of the Genus Zostera

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  Potamogetonales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59. 1829.    Subordo  Potamogetonineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 72. Mai 1898.    Familia  Zosteraceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 65, 66. 1829, nom. cons. common name: Eel-grasses    Subfamilia  Zosteroideae Buchenau pub. Fl. Nordwestdeut. Tiefebene: 41. 28 Apr 1894.    Tribus  Zostereae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 163. 1827.    Genus  Zostera L. pub. (1753) common name: eelgrass

Named members of the Genus Zostera

1	Species  americana den Hartog syn. Zostera japonica
2	Species  japonica Aschers. & Graebn. common name: dwarf eelgrass
3	Species  marina L.
	4    Varietas  latifolia Morong syn. Zostera marina 5    Varietas  stenophylla Aschers. & Graebn. syn. Zostera marina
6	Species  nana Roth syn. Zostera japonica
7	Species  pacifica L. syn. Zostera marina

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.