Potamogetonales
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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Potamogetonales

Mediterranean tapeweed
cymodocea
ditch-grasses
eel-grasses
eelgrass
halodule
manateegrass
pondweed
posidonia
shoalweed
surfgrass
widgeonweed

Hierarchical position of the Order Potamogetonales

   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  Alismatidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 461. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Alismatanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 461. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Potamogetonales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59. 1829.

Named members of the Order Potamogetonales

1
   Subordo  Potamogetonineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 72. Mai 1898.
 
2
   Familia  Cymodoceaceae N. Taylor
pub. N. Amer. Fl. 17(1): 31. 30 Jun 1909, nom. cons.
3
   Familia  Posidoniaceae Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 41. 1934, nom. cons.
4
   Familia  Potamogetonaceae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59, 61. 1829.
common name: Pondweeds
5
   Familia  Ruppiaceae Horan. ex Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 48. 1934, nom. cons.
common name: Ditch-grasses
6
   Familia  Zannichelliaceae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59, 61. 1829, nom. cons.
common name: Horned pondweeds
7
   Familia  Zosteraceae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 65, 66. 1829, nom. cons.
common name: Eel-grasses

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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