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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Menyanthaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Menyanthaceae

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  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Asteridae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Campanulanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.       Ordo  Menyanthales T. Yamaz. ex Takht. pub. Divers. Classif. Fl. Pl.: 415. 1 Mai 1997.       Familia  Menyanthaceae (Dumort.) Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 20, 25. 1829.

Named members of the Family Menyanthaceae

1	Genus  Fauria Franch. syn. Nephrophyllidium Gilg
2	Genus  Limnanthemum S.G.Gmel. syn. Nymphoides Seg.
3	Genus  Liparophyllum Hook.f.
4	Subfamilia  Menyanthoideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 1010, 1095, 1104. Jun 1835.
	5    Tribus  Menyantheae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 52. 1827.      6    Genus  Menyanthes L. pub. (1753) common name: buckbean
7	Genus  Nephrophyllidium Gilg common name: deercabbage
8	Genus  Nymphoides Seg. common name: floatingheart
9	Subfamilia  Villarsioideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 3: 1030. Apr-Dec 1834.
	10    Tribus  Villarsieae Horan. pub. Char. Ess. Fam.: 112. 1847.   11    Genus  Villarsia Vent. pub. (1809)

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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