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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Veratrum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Veratrum

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  Melanthiales R. Dahlgre ex Reveal pub. 1992       Familia  Melanthiaceae Batsch pub. Tab. Affin. Regni Veg.: 133. 2 Mai 1802.       Subfamilia  Veratroideae Burmeist. pub. Handb. Naturgesch.: 222. 1837.       Tribus  Veratreae T. Nees & C.H. Eberm. ex Endl. pub. Gen. Pl.: 134. Dec 1836.       Genus  Veratrum L. pub. (1753) common name: false hellebore

Named members of the Genus Veratrum

1	Species  album L. common name: white hellebore
	2    Subspecies  album common name: white false hellebore 3    Subspecies  oxysepalum (Turcz.) Hult�n common name: white false hellebore
4	Species  californicum Dur. common name: false hellebore, California corn lily
	5    Varietas  californicum common name: California false hellebore 6    Varietas  caudatum (Heller) C.L. Hitchc. common name: Cascade false hellebore
7	Species  caudatum Heller syn. Veratrum californicum var. caudatum
8	Species  eschscholtzianum (J.A. & J.H. Schultes) Rydb. ex Heller syn. Veratrum viride
9	Species  eschscholtzii Gray
	10    Varietas  incriminatum Boivin syn. Veratrum viride
11	Species  fimbriatum Gray common name: fringed false hellebore
12	Species  insolitum Jepson common name: Siskiyou false hellebore
13	Species  intermedium Chapman syn. Melanthium woodii
14	Species  luteum L. syn. Chamaelirium luteum
15	Species  nigrum L. common name: false hellebore
16	Species  oxysepalum Turcz. syn. Veratrum album ssp. oxysepalum
17	Species  parviflorum Michx. syn. Melanthium parviflorum
18	Species  speciosum Rydb. syn. Veratrum californicum var. californicum
19	Species  tenuipetalum Heller common name: Colorado false hellebore
20	Species  virginicum (L.) Ait. f. syn. Melanthium virginicum
21	Species  viride Ait. common name: American white hellebore
	22    Subspecies  eschscholtzii (Gray) A.& D. L�ve syn. Veratrum viride 23    Varietas  eschscholtzii (Gray) Breitung syn. Veratrum viride
24	Species  woodii J.W. Robbins ex Wood syn. Melanthium woodii

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.