Potamogetonaceae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Potamogetonaceae

pondweed

Hierarchical position of the Family Potamogetonaceae

   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  Potamogetonaceae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59, 61. 1829.
common name: Pondweeds

Named members of the Family Potamogetonaceae

1
   Genus  Groenlandia J.Gay
2
   Genus  Hydrogeton Lour.
pub. (1790)
3
   Subfamilia  Potamogetonoideae Luerss.
pub. Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 304. Dec 1879.
 
4
   Tribus  Potamogetoneae Dumort.
pub. Fl. Belg.: 163. 1827.
 
5
   Genus  Potamogeton L.
pub. (1753)
common name: pondweed

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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