Alyssum
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Alyssum

alyssum
madwort
yellowtuft

Hierarchical position of the Genus Alyssum

   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  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt.
pub. 1993
  
   SuperOrdo  Capparanae Reveal
pub. Phytologia 76: 3. 1994.
  
   Ordo  Capparales Hutch.
pub. Bull. Misc. Inform. 1924: 122. 29 Mai 1924.
  
   Subordo  Capparineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 121. Mai 1898.
  
   Familia  Brassicaceae Burnett
pub. Outl. Bot.: 854, 1093, 1123. Jun 1835, nom. cons.
common name: Cruciferae
  
   Subfamilia  Alyssoideae Leurss.
pub. Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 614, 617. Nov 1880.
  
   Tribus  Alysseae DC.
pub. M�m. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7(1): 231. 20 Apr 1821.
  
   Subtribus  Alyssinae Sond. in Harv. & Sond.
pub. Fl. Cap. 1: 23. 10-31 Mai 1860.
  
   Genus  Alyssum L.
pub. (1753)
common name: madwort
  

Named members of the Genus Alyssum

1
   Species  alyssoides (L.) L.
common name: pale madwort
2
   Species  americanum Greene
syn. Alyssum obovatum
3
   Species  calycinum L.
syn. Alyssum alyssoides
4
   Species  desertorum Stapf
 
5
   Varietas  desertorum
common name: desert madwort
6
   Varietas  himalayensis Dudley
common name: desert madwort
7
   Species  incanum L.
syn. Berteroa incana
8
   Species  maritimum (L.) Lam.
syn. Lobularia maritima
common name: sweet alyssum
  
9
   Species  minus (L.) Rothm.
 
10
   Varietas  micranthum (C.A. Mey.) Dudley
common name: alyssum
11
   Varietas  strigosum (Banks & Soland.) Zohary
common name: alyssum
12
   Species  murale Waldst. & Kit.
common name: yellowtuft
13
   Species  mutabile Vent.
syn. Berteroa mutabilis
14
   Species  obovatum (C.A. Mey.) Turcz.
common name: American madwort
15
   Species  parviflorum Fisch. ex Bieb.
 
16
   Varietas  micranthum (C.A. Mey.) Dorn
syn. Alyssum minus var. micranthum
17
   Species  petraeum Ard.
syn. Aurinia petraea
18
   Species  saxatile L.
syn. Aurinia saxatilis
19
   Species  strigosum Banks & Soland.
syn. Alyssum minus var. strigosum
20
   Species  szovitsianum Fisch. & C.A. Mey.
common name: Szowits' madwort
21
   Species  turkestanicum auct. non Regel & Schmalh.
syn. Alyssum desertorum var. desertorum

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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