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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Viscum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Viscum

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  Santalanae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Santalales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 13. 1829.       Familia  Viscaceae Batsch pub. Tab. Affin. Regni Veg.: 240. 2 Mai 1802. common name: Common Mistletoes       Subfamilia  Viscoideae Eichler in Mart. pub. Fl. Bras. 5(2): 93. 15 Jul 1868.       Tribus  Visceae Horan. pub. Char. Ess. Fam.: 86. 1847.       Genus  Viscum L. pub. (1753) common name: mistletoe

Named members of the Genus Viscum

1	Species  album L. common name: European mistletoe
2	Species  anceps Spreng. syn. Phoradendron anceps
3	Species  dichotomum Bertero syn. Phoradendron dichotomum
4	Species  flavescens sensu Pursh p.p. non Viscum flavens Sw. syn. Phoradendron leucarpum
5	Species  hexastichum DC. syn. Phoradendron hexastichum

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.