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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Nelumbo

Hierarchical position of the Genus Nelumbo

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  Piperopsida Bartl. pub. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 78, 83. Sep 1830.       Subclassis  Nelumbonidae Takht. pub. 1997       SuperOrdo  Nelumbonanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Nelumbonales Willk. & Lange pub. Prodr. Fl. Hispan. 1: xxx. 1861.       Familia  Nelumbonaceae (DC.) Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 53. 1829. common name: Lotus-lily, water lotus       Subfamilia  Nelumbonoideae (DC.) Arn. pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 96. 9 Mar 1832.       Tribus  Nelumboneae DC. pub. Syst. Nat. 2: 43. late Mai 1821.       Genus  Nelumbo Adans. pub. (1763) common name: lotus

Named members of the Genus Nelumbo

1	Species  lutea Willd. common name: American lotus
2	Species  nucifera Gaertn. common name: sacred lotus
3	Species  pentapetala sensu Fern., non Nymphaea pentaphylla Wa syn. Nelumbo lutea
4	Species  speciosa Willd. syn. Nelumbo nucifera

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.