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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Hypoxis

Hierarchical position of the Genus Hypoxis

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  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Asparagales Bromhead pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 132. Jul 1838.       Familia  Hypoxidaceae R. Br. in Flinders pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 576. 19 Jul 1814.    Subfamilia  Hypoxidoideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 446. Jun 1835.    Tribus  Hypoxideae Bernh. pub. Flora 23: 426. 21 Jul 1840.    Genus  Hypoxis L. pub. (1759) common name: star-grass

Named members of the Genus Hypoxis

1	Species  curtissii Rose common name: Curtis' star-grass
2	Species  decumbens L. syn. Hypoxis hirsuta
3	Species  hirsuta (L.) Coville
	4    Varietas  leptocarpa (Engelm. & Gray) Brackett syn. Hypoxis curtissii
5	Species  juncea Sm. common name: fringed yellow star-grass
6	Species  leptocarpa (Engelm. & Gray) Small syn. Hypoxis curtissii
7	Species  longii Fern. syn. Hypoxis sessilis
8	Species  mexicana J.A. & J.H. Schultes common name: Mexican yellow star-grass
9	Species  micrantha Pollard syn. Hypoxis wrightii
10	Species  rigida Chapman common name: stiff star-grass
11	Species  sessilis L. common name: glossyseed yellow star-grass
12	Species  wrightii (Baker) Brackett common name: Wright's star-grass

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.