Poales
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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Poales

acroceras
amblyopyrum
bamboo
beachgrass
beardgrass
bermudagrass
buffalograss
cane
carpetgrass
carpgrass
corn
crabgrass
desertgrass
dropseed
false brome
goatgrass
goosegrass
grama
gramineae
grass
hairgrass
maidencane
mossgrass
needlegrass
oatgrass
pendantgrass
polargrass
quakinggrass
reedgrass
relaxgrass
sandbur
sandreed
shorthusk
signalgrass
silkybent
sloughgrass
stalkgrass
summergrass
threeawn
veldtgrass
wheatgrass
whorlgrass
wildrye
winter aconite
woodreed

Hierarchical position of the Order Poales

   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.
  

Named members of the Order Poales

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   Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh.
pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons.
common name: Gramineae
  

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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