Zoysia
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Zoysia

Korean lawngrass
grass

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.

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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