Alismatanae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Superorder Alismatanae

aponogeton
arrow-grasses
arrowgrass
blyxa
burrhead
cape pondweed
damasonium
ditch-grasses
ducklettuce
eel-grasses
eelgrass
egeria
halodule
hydrilla
hydrocharis
hydrocleys
lilaea
ottelia
oxygen-weed
pondweeds
rannoch-rush
scheuchzerias
seagrass
spongeplant
surfgrass
water soldiers
water-nymphs
water-poppies
waterplantain
waterpoppy
waterweed

Hierarchical position of the Superorder Alismatanae

   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.
  

Named members of the Superorder Alismatanae

1
   Ordo  Alismatales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 54. 1829.
  
 
2
   Subordo  Alismatineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 73. Mai 1898.
  
 
3
   Familia  Alismataceae Vent.
pub. Tabl. R�gne V�g. 2: 157. 5 Mai 1799, nom. cons.
common name: waterplantain
  
4
   Familia  Limnocharitaceae Takht. ex Cronquist
pub. Integr. Syst. Class. Fl. Pl.: 1048. 10 Aug 1981.
common name: Water-poppies
5
   Ordo  Aponogetonales Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 10, 43. 1934.
  
 
6
   Familia  Aponogetonaceae J. Agardh
pub. Theoria Syst. Pl.: 44. Apr-Sep 1858.
common name: Cape pondweeds
  
7
   Ordo  Hydrocharitales Dumort.
pub. 1829
 
8
   Familia  Hydrocharitaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 67. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Waterweeds
9
   Ordo  Juncaginales Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 9, 38. 1934.
 
10
   Familia  Juncaginaceae Rich.
pub. D�monstr. Bot.: ix. Mai 1808.
common name: Arrow-grasses
11
   Familia  Scheuchzeriaceae F. Rudolphi
pub. Syst. Orb. Veg.: 28. 1830.
common name: Scheuchzerias
12
   Ordo  Najadales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59. 1829.
 
13
   Familia  Najadaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 18. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Water-nymphs
14
   Ordo  Potamogetonales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59. 1829.
 
15
   Subordo  Potamogetonineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 72. Mai 1898.
 
16
   Familia  Cymodoceaceae N. Taylor
pub. N. Amer. Fl. 17(1): 31. 30 Jun 1909, nom. cons.
17
   Familia  Posidoniaceae Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 41. 1934, nom. cons.
18
   Familia  Potamogetonaceae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59, 61. 1829.
common name: Pondweeds
19
   Familia  Ruppiaceae Horan. ex Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 48. 1934, nom. cons.
common name: Ditch-grasses
20
   Familia  Zannichelliaceae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59, 61. 1829, nom. cons.
common name: Horned pondweeds
21
   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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