Cycnogeton

Cycnogeton procerum flowerhead

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Alismatales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Alismatales

Familia: Juncaginaceae
Genus:
Species: C. alcockiae – C. dubium – C. huegelii – C. lineare – C. microtuberosum – C. multifructum – C. procerum – C. rheophilum

Name

  • Cycnogeton Endl., Stirp. Australasic. (Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 210: 1839) 22 (1838)
  • Type species: Cycnogeton huegelii Endl., Stirp. Herb. Hügel.: 23 (1838)

Note: The circumscription here follows von Mering & Kadereit, (2010) as reported on Govaerts et al. (2014).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Australasia
    • Regional: Papuasia
      • New Guinea
    • Regional: Australia
      • New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

Additional references

  • Endler, S.F.L. (1838) Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte 2: 210. BHL
  • Mering, S. v. & Kadereit, J.W. 2010. Phylogeny, systematics and recircumscription of Juncaginaceae – a cosmopolitan wetland family. pp. 55–79 in Seberg, O. (ed.): Diversity, Phylogeny, and Evolution in the Monocotyledons. proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons and the Fifth International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, Denmark, ISBN 978-87-7934-398-6. PDF Reference page.  Accessed 20 Nov. 2014.

Vernacular names

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