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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Zoysia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Zoysia

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  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Poales Small pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.       Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh. pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons. common name: Gramineae       Tribus  Zoysieae Benth. pub. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 29. 24 Dec 1881.    Subtribus  Zoysiinae Benth. pub. Fl. Austral. 7: 453, 505. 23-30 Mar 1878.    Genus  Zoysia Willd. pub. (1801) common name: lawngrass

Named members of the Genus Zoysia

1	Species  japonica Steud. common name: Korean lawngrass
2	Species  matrella (L.) Merr.
	3    Varietas  matrella common name: Manila grass 4    Varietas  pacifica Gouds. common name: Manila grass 5    Subspecies  tenuifolia (Willd. ex Thiele) T. Koyama syn. Zoysia tenuifolia 6    Varietas  tenuifolia (Willd. ex Thiele) Sasaki syn. Zoysia tenuifolia
7	Species  tenuifolia Willd. ex Thiele common name: Mascarene grass

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.