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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Pontederiaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Pontederiaceae

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  Pontederianae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Pontederiales Hook.f. in Le Maout & Decne. pub. General Syst. Bot.: 1021. 25 Apr 1873       Subordo  Pontederiineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 87. Mai 1898.       Familia  Pontederiaceae Kunth in Humb. pub. Bonpl. & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: fol. 211, qu. 265. 1816. common name: Water-hyacinth

Named members of the Family Pontederiaceae

1	Genus  Eichhornia Kunth common name: water hyacinth
2	Genus  Eurystemon Alexander
3	Genus  Heteranthera Ruiz & Pav. pub. (1794)
4	Genus  Hydrothrix Hook.f.
5	Genus  Monochoria C.Presl common name: monochoria
6	Subfamilia  Pontederoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 168. Mai 1831.
	7    Tribus  Pontederieae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 61. 1829.      8    Genus  Pontederia L. pub. (1753) common name: pontederia
9	Genus  Reussia Endl. common name: reussia
10	Genus  Scholleropsis H.Perrier
11	Genus  Unisma Raf. pub. (1808)
12	Genus  Zosterella Small

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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