Ornithogalum
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Ornithogalum

Pyrenees star of Bethlehem
Star of Bethlehem
drooping star of Bethlehem
false seaonion
sleepydick

Hierarchical position of the Genus Ornithogalum

   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  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn.
pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.
  
   SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Amaryllidales Bromhead
pub. 1840
  
   Familia  Hyacinthaceae Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 48. 1786.
  
   Subtribus  Ornithogalinae Caruel
pub. Epit. Fl. Europ. 1: 42. Jan 1892.
  
   Genus  Ornithogalum L.
pub. (1753)
common name: star of Bethlehem
  

Named members of the Genus Ornithogalum

1
   Species  bivalve L.
syn. Nothoscordum bivalve
2
   Species  caudatum Ait.
common name: false seaonion
3
   Species  divaricatum Lindl.
syn. Chlorogalum pomeridianum var. divaricatum
4
   Species  fistulosum Ramond ex DC. nom. illeg.
syn. Gagea fistulosa
5
   Species  hirsutum L.
syn. Hypoxis hirsuta
6
   Species  ixioides Ait. f.
syn. Triteleia ixioides ssp. ixioides
7
   Species  nutans L.
common name: drooping star of Bethlehem
8
   Species  pyrenaicum L.
common name: Pyrenees star of Bethlehem
9
   Species  umbellatum L.
common name: sleepydick, Star of Bethlehem
  

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 November 01, 2004   

 

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