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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Milium

milletgrass

Hierarchical position of the Genus Milium

   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  Juncanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Poales Small
pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.
  
   Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh.
pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons.
common name: Gramineae
  
   Tribus  Milieae Link ex Endl.
pub. Fl. Poson.: 109. Mai 1830.
  
   Subtribus  Miliinae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 64. 1829.
  
   Genus  Milium L.
pub. (1753)
common name: milletgrass
  

Named members of the Genus Milium

1
   Species  compressum Sw.
syn. Axonopus compressus
2
   Species  effusum L.   
 
3
   Varietas  cisatlanticum Fern.
common name: American milletgrass
4
   Species  paniceum Sw.
syn. Digitaria panicea
5
   Species  punctatum L.
syn. Eriochloa punctata
6
   Species  vernale Bieb.
common name: spring milletgrass

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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