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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Potamogetonales

Hierarchical position of the Order Potamogetonales

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.

Named members of the Order Potamogetonales

1

Subordo  Potamogetonineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 72. Mai 1898.

2    Familia  Cymodoceaceae N. Taylor pub. N. Amer. Fl. 17(1): 31. 30 Jun 1909, nom. cons. 3    Familia  Posidoniaceae Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 41. 1934, nom. cons. 4    Familia  Potamogetonaceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59, 61. 1829. common name: Pondweeds 5    Familia  Ruppiaceae Horan. ex Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 48. 1934, nom. cons. common name: Ditch-grasses 6    Familia  Zannichelliaceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59, 61. 1829, nom. cons. common name: Horned pondweeds 7    Familia  Zosteraceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 65, 66. 1829, nom. cons. common name: Eel-grasses

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.

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