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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Zea

corn
cornsilk
maize
teosinte

Hierarchical position of the Genus Zea

   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  Commelinidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967.
common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes
  
   SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Poales Small
pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.
  
   Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh.
pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons.
common name: Gramineae
  
   Genus  Zea L.
pub. (1753)
common name: corn
  

Named members of the Genus Zea

1
   Species  diploperennis Iltis, Doebley, & Guzman
common name: diploperennial teosinte
2
   Species  luxurians (Durieu & Asch.) Bird
common name: teosinte
3
   Species  mays L.
common name: corn, cornsilk, maize, yu mi shu  (Chinese)
  
 
4
   Subspecies  mays
common name: corn
5
   Subspecies  mexicana (Schrad.) Iltis
syn. Zea mexicana
6
   Subspecies  parviglumis Iltis & Doebley
common name: maize
 
7
   Varietas  huehuetenangensis Iltis & Doebley
common name: maize
8
   Species  mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntze
common name: Mexican teosinte
9
   Species  perennis (A.S. Hitchc.) Reeves & Manglesdorf
common name: perennial teosinte

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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