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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Nelumbium

Hierarchical position of the Genus Nelumbium

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  Rosidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Rutanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 311. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Sapindales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 43. 1829.       Familia  Aceraceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 250. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Maples       Genus  Nelumbium

Named members of the Genus Nelumbium

1	Species  luteum Willd. syn. Nelumbo lutea common name: yellow lotus, water chinkapin
2	Species  nelumbo (L.) Druce syn. Nelumbo nucifera
3	Species  speciosum Willd. syn. Nelumbo nucifera common name: sacred bean of India, Egyptian lotus

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.