Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Caryophyllanae > Order Caryophyllales > Family Portulacaceae > Genus Montia > Aggregate Montia fontana aggr.

Montia fontana L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Montia*	L.	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Montia fontana subsp. rivularis*	(C. C. Gmel.) Schübl. & G. Martens	heterotypic synonym
*Montia rivularis*	C. C. Gmel.	heterotypic synonym
*Montia verna*	Neck.	synonym; nom. illeg.

Children

Montia fontana L. subsp. fontana
Montia fontana subsp. amporitana Sennen

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: amanida de gripau; móntia sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Galician: ensalada do sapo sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Portuguese: meruges; meruginha; merujas sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: berujas; birujas; borujas; coca valenciana; comio; corujas; corujos; ensalada de sapo; hierba de manantial; hierba del manantial; meruja; merujas; pamplinas; perifollas; perifollos; perifuelles; pomplina; regajos; virujas

Literature

nomenclatural reference	L., Sp. Pl. 1753.

Genbank

Citation

Uotila, P. (2011): Portulacaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Montia fontana L.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=499F4ABE-2F14-4378-96EA-730BDECC70FA