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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Potamogetonaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Potamogetonaceae

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.    Subordo  Potamogetonineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 72. Mai 1898.    Familia  Potamogetonaceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59, 61. 1829. common name: Pondweeds

Named members of the Family Potamogetonaceae

1	Genus  Groenlandia J.Gay
2	Genus  Hydrogeton Lour. pub. (1790)
3	Subfamilia  Potamogetonoideae Luerss. pub. Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 304. Dec 1879.
	4    Tribus  Potamogetoneae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 163. 1827.   5    Genus  Potamogeton L. pub. (1753) common name: pondweed

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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